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Xerography-Processed Adinkra Sampler , 22-page artist book and zine, includes a symbol glossary (slide 2), 9.75 x 7 in. (closed), 2025. 

I have been studying the rich archive of knowledge, wisdom, and resistance embodied in Ghanaian Adinkra symbols, whose history of migration mirrors that of my family. I’ve been gently abstracting and tracing these forms, folding them into printed garments, drawings, and artist books, using both physical and digital materials, as a means of commenting on their migration and adoption in Caribbean architecture, art, literature, and the ways they’ve been co-opted to connect with a greater pan-African past.

Caribbean Blue Adinkra Sampler, zine and fold-out poster, scans of cyanotypes
 (printed initially with copy paper stencils, sand, and sunlight) Includes a symbol glossary (slide 5), laser-printed on paper, 2025. 


shadowy, twinkling visage, cyanotype on paper, sunlight, 2025.


I sell the sunlight to support the substance, open-edition of monoprint cyanotype shirts and sand-printed pants, all printed on cotton, 2024-present. 

Available for purchase in the shop. The text on the shirts is informed by the postcards that abolitionist Sojourner Truth sold, which featured the motto “I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance,” to fund her cause.  Each sale funds my research and printmaking practice. 


Mourning Flowers of Choice, Leaves and Plastic Bag Combinations, front and verso, cyanotype of pressed hydrangeas, plastic, and leaves, exposed for so long with UV light that the objects printed through the paper, 2024. 


Beloved (grave rubbing), cyanotype on paper, sunlight, 2024.


1. Vine Protection Heart and Clothesline Flag, cyanotype on cotton pillowcase, sunlight, 2024.  

2. Yard ornments, (slide 5), cyanotype on tyvek, rocks, sunlight, dimensions variable, 2024.

Sylvina Lee Treasure Garden exhibition, 2024, Brooklyn. 
(Slide 1 and 5 courtesy of Mika Agari).


1. Protection Heart (partially submerged), cyanotype on paper, sunlight, 2024.

2. Protection Heart, cyanotype on paper, sunlight, 2024.

artist note: I do really feel like any wrought-iron-informed drawing I do is a spiritual working through. When printed on clothing, it’s meant to be armor or protection. It’s also the ideal vehicle of exhibition…meant to be seen in the world, not just a room.


Shirt donation for Gaza Mutual Aid Solidarity and e-sim fundraiser created by artist’s Pear Ware, exhibited at Furuba, 2024. 

Note from Pear Ware, “together we raised $2500- $2000 donated directly to @gazamutualaidsolidarity and $500 towards purchasing e-sims for Palestinians.” 



Plant studies of ground foraged foliage, cyanotype on cotton, flowers, leaves, coral, sand, and sunlight, 2021. 


Birthday Shirt and Celebration of Life 08/24/2024, front and verso, 25 x 20.5 in., cyanotype, bleach, and fabric dye on cotton, sunlight, 2024.


Combination: Wicker, Corn Silk, Corn Husks, Dollar Store Vinyl, cyanotype on cotton, sunlight, 
36 x 18.5 in., 2022.