Mixed media & methods,
same herstorical message*:
In my life, the duty of applied, authentic, and unapologetic Truth-in-Love across disciplines never dies.
📜 Full-Spectrum Doula Certification
Shown: (Self-)photograph en route to essential work for, with essential women (2019)
🎵📷👩🏿💻 “Issues”
(song)
Digital ‘biopsychosocial cartography’ illustration (2021) published in Pulse journal (2025)🔗above-titled hip-hop soul/blues recording (2011)
✍🏿📰 Women’s Health community reporting
Mixed human-interest copy published in The Southeast Queens PRESS (2002) and via personal blog (2006)
🎼📷👩🏿💻 “Master Key”
(song)
Audiovisual maiden-mother-crone triptych via digital photo illustration (2010)🔗above-titled a capella folk composition (1998)
🎨🤝 Concept & Logo Design, “Commissioned”
with Sarah Kivatinos
This modified crest intentionally features rounded fullness as my shield including some plant/gem/mineral allies and womanist Messianic Hebrew-centered peace-making and -building elements (‘in the Spirit of [midwives] Shifra and Puah’) connecting my maternal health equity Work. (2020)
🙏🏿👩🏿🔬✍🏿 Spiritual health case study excerpt
(2020-1)🔗 Shown: photo of slain Ohio teenager Ma’Khia Bryant ©2021 CNN, SOURCE Magazine
📷👩🏿💻 “Splitting Headache?”
Embodied digital photo illustration/monograph of skullcap (Sculletaria laterifolia) (2010) 🔗an original, ambient soul recording I call “Natura” (2007)
📷 “Da Capo”
Impromptu photo featuring beautiful brothers loving the African diasporic martial/venusian art of capoeira while at 🔗the now-International African Arts Festival (2003)
📷 “God Wink on Dolores”
Impromptu photo (2018) distilling my weary soul’s attention to the perfect breeze & bend in a palm tree after finally answering a decades-old ministry Call
🎨👩🏿💻 Mindful Rebranding Pitch to the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority (NYC MTA): “On the move. Meant.™” Campaign
Two ads of transformative copy & digital illustration challenging rules and reasoning through a care aesthetics lens (2006-7)
WATCH THIS SPACE…
for new, original woRx TBD; currently shown: my random notice of a dope NOLA mural & Sycamore love (2025)
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🐦🔥🍲✍🏿 Recipe as Ancestral Respect & Foodways Study, “Meld Moor”
Shown: A redemption dish best served hot, honoring the cultural cross-winds and -roads inherent to the spices of African Diasporic Life 🔗contextual writing (2022)
🎨👩🏿💻 Sociocultural Anthropology-informed Educational Design, from “Deyah Dem: Many Crowns”
Shown: A sacral chakra-aligned plate from a CROWN Act-celebratory MFA project featuring Adinkra proverbs-in-symbols 🔗context card (2021)
📰✍🏿 “Minor Writing” op-ed
Shown: Impromptu photo (aka citizen’s risk assessment I titled “Rules for Thee”) at a lengthy NJ Rt. 3 traffic light (2008) 🔗the above-named public commentary published in the Nogales International (AZ) (2006)
* Depending upon your device, you may notice a pattern as you navigate this page: informational paths moving right to left, like two Semitic languages whose faith expressions are often regarded as being at cross-purposes.
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Well, for The Cross’ Purposes, my visual urban ethnographies (or, VUEs) embrace
…reform & re-visit phenomena to encourage innerstanding that rises from the roots. One of the eldest known Christian creeds asserts not all descent is indecent but may serve to Redeem.
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This embodied missiology makes plain the Akan concept of “twisting”—Biblically historic or modernly messy
…I thank G-d for friends like The Holy Spirit & Art when others insist on negativity, in part.
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Consider this real-life, big picture (R&B) view:
“People swore it off as a phase / Said ‘we can’t see that’ / Now, top to bottom, they see that we did that / (Yes) It’s so true that / (Yes) we been through it / (Yes) We got real … / we’ve been too strong for too long and I can’t Be without you.”
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YES… Ubuntu.
A humbling beauty about the Journey is that detractors and disciples have always been organic to its roads. Sometimes, both are present within us as we navigate pits of procrastination, impostor syndrome, and self-sabotage trauma responses or simply pause to experience the aromas of strong inspiration and fulfillment. Inner- standing this, may we all change course as necessary to meet, raise ourselves and relations with then be reconciled to the purest of Love; maintaining, if not creating, healthy p(e)ace along The Way. ~☥³
The Souljournalist. 