Diasporic Dreams

Diasporic Dreams is a work in progress—an ongoing exploration of cultural identity as layered, fluid, and ever-evolving. Rooted in Black Southern traditions from Louisiana and Arkansas, as well as Afro-Indigenous ancestry connected to the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations in Chickasha, Oklahoma, the series celebrates the richness of cultural traditions and pays homage to the Africanisms embedded within Black culture. Drawing from Yoruba, Bakongo, and Igbo cosmologies, it embraces these ancestral ties as guiding forces of resilience, memory, and resistance.

This developing body of work investigates how personal and collective identities emerge through family narratives, community memory, and creative practice. Diasporic Dreams weaves together lived experience, ancestral knowledge, and imagination to envision identity as both a living archive and a vibrant site of artistic expression.