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My interest has expanded to learning and appreciating many different dance forms from the larger African Diaspora. I have found great beauty discovering that there has been dialogue between the dances of urban African Americans and Hispanics, and my dance community is now a mix of Latin, House, Voguing, Waacking and mutual support.

Growing up, the school I went to was full of light skinned, upper-middle class kids. I was none of that. I was poor, ugly, with "bad hair". It took me almost three decades to see myself differently. This performance features Waacking dance style, which originated in the West Coast gay bars of the 70s (predominantly Black and Hispanic), where queer people shut out of the acting and modeling industry came  up with ways of using their hands, arms and poses, simulating actresses on the big screens.   

I have always been prone to introspection. As I experience art making and dance, I have experienced extreme altered states - exhilaration, hyperfocus, extreme clarity. The Art Forest is an immersive, modular, scalable installation exploring the altered state of mind I experience during the creative state of flow. It can be adapted to different gallery size and shapes. The audience walks through panels with poetry, abstract paintings and some figurative paintings also, in a process of discovery of layers. 

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