My work grew out of my lived experiences and the histories I was born into, shaped by a diasporic reality in the Dutch Caribbean (DC).

For me, the Caribbean is formed through movement, encounter, and relation, shaped by histories of slavery, migration, displacement, and the coming together of many peoples. These histories remain present in everyday life all over the world, shaping how we move, speak, remember, and imagine ourselves across borders and generations.

I began my practice working with documentary film and personal archives in order to tell DC stories from within, rather than through stereotypical or external perspectives. Between 2010 and 2024, my work addressed themes central to these realities, including migration, tourism, climate change, belonging, resistance, and relations to the Dutch Kingdom. Meaning that my work expanded to examine how identities shift yet struggle to remain static, how cultural knowledge is passed on through everyday practices rather than written histories, and how stories emerge and endure despite omission from official narratives.

My work & installations bring together multiple voices, sounds, images, and fragments, functioning as poetic groupings: simple forms that hold layered experiences of memory, migration, and place.

Through this approach, I invite viewers to slow down, look closely, and connect with the deeper histories embedded in today's many cultural experiences. Art & Ethnography remains central to my creative process.

Rather than illustrating narratives directly or engaging in literal storytelling, I allow for abstraction, saturation, and polyphony through materials such as the archive, documented observations, objects, gestures, emotions, and new understandings. To re-imagine traces and new possibilities.