About

Welcome To The Gallery! All Of This Work Was Created On Various Cellphones From Burners to iPhones between 2007 and 2024. Here’s a little information on my AI inspired work, which is a completely different approach to my work which, as many of you know is all created by one’s original idea and concept then by the process of copious prompts, often given up to over 50 times per image as in the case of my work. Additionally, here are some of the theoretical concepts and foundations I apply to my work to which is of course personal choice, they are my own intellectual cogitations and not driven by AI as I use responsible AI.

I work in analogue and digital photography and in AI, often blending some or all of three mediums together in addition to my own literature including creative writing, critical and theoretical photography essays depending on each project. Most of my work is documentary photography while some is fine art, some is conceptual and many are New Media such as Lady Criminals, Avatar, and Selfies. While some images are created on Adobe Photoshop. You may notice my consistent use of raptors in the work especially in The Falconer’s and Native Light. These are a symbolic tribute to my ancestors as I am Native American and they serve as homages to their journey’s and their lifespans. From Mongolia to the Siberian Straits, to an Alaskan Coastal Tribe then to the Plains where I located one relative from the Lakota Sioux Reservation who fought in The Battle Of Wounded Knee. Then onto Oklahoma “Indian Country” as it was referred to for years to the Cherokee Nation where my great grandmother and all of her siblings were Cherokee Slaves, as her parents were as well. She had two daughters Ojanna and Olete, Ojanna, my grandmother a Cherokee woman died before I could meet her as she was born in the early 1900’s. The use of eagles and ravens are commonly featured in both Native American life and art.

The series The Falconer’s, The gathering of The Elephants and The Family, my new AI inspired work is influenced by work Hinduism and in this particular series I’m basing a portion of the work on Hindi religious beliefs in gods and deities who play an incredibly powerful role in the religion and way of life in India 🇮🇳 This series is a tribute to the god Hanuman who has otherworldly strength, beauty, power and wisdom as he is part human and part animal, more specifically monkey and is referred to as Monkey Man. He also represents redemption and bravery. My series The Gathering of the Elephants is an homage to the Hindu god Ganesh who has the face of an elephant 🐘 and the body of a man. Ganesh’s attributes include obstacle remover, renewal, change and transformation, and all things benevolent and auspicious among many more incredible representations. If you notice I often or my work often has themes of humans and animals and their interconnectedness. It’s also important to mention that Hinduism is not the only religion to have god’s, goddesses and deities to worship, there are numerous other cultures and countries who have their own! In Africa the blending of humans and animals as icons to worship are common and have been since as long as cultures were formed before colonization (from Evolution not the Bible!) Myriad cultures and religions have their own forms of who and how they worship. I find India unique in its mass worship and homages to myriad not only multiple gods and deities but equally as important, to animals like elephants and snakes and the list continues and numerous other gods and goddesses like Shiva, the divine deity of destruction and renewal, as Shiva is the protector, the creator and yet the destroyer of the universe. Being among the most powerful 0f gods and goddesses some say, Shiva must be treated with respect because she has the capacity for extraordinary power.