THE RITUAL & THE ART FORM

​"Mas is a vehicle for the expression of human energy... a unique artform that combines the visual with the performative. This living art that we make fresh every year is the highest and deepest artistic expression... Flesh and blood powers the mas. The energy passes from performer to spectator like an electrical charge—a moment that cannot, will not last, leaving the mind singed. Our aesthetic is performance, the living now."

​— Peter Minshall, Mas Man

​Following in the footsteps of Peter Minshall and generations of mas makers before me is both a sacred inheritance and my primary creative engine. I intentionally center the traditions, structural mechanics, and spiritual alchemy of carnival masquerade to drive a multidisciplinary studio practice.

​My work spans hand-bent wire armatures, molten encaustic wax, mixed-media paintings, screen-printed textiles, physical performance, and wearable masquerade sculptures—what I call living paintings. Grounded in my identity as a Black queer Caribbean artist living and creating in the American South, my practice converts raw building materials and inherited ancestral ritual into enduring visual monuments.