My current body of work investigates the ways that traditional African food staples serve as a conduit for ancestral memory and  cultural identity throughout the African Diaspora.  Inspired in part by the popular Netflix series High on the Hog, which examined how African American cuisine transformed America, and my travels through West Africa, I use sculptural form to reposition food production and consumption as an alchemy that satiates the body and the spirit. In this context, nourishment or sustenance, has a double meaning that refers both to the corporeal and the incorporeal–to this world and to “other” worlds.  Food is a vessel of history and histories embedded within the okra seed and the meaty flesh of the yam.