Seattle based, self-taught visual artist. What began as a coping mechanism for depression and anxiety became a lens to examine and understand the world. Being closeted, a slave to other’s expectations, and losing one of the most important people to their existence caused a mental, emotional, and spiritual paralysis. The need to escape turned into isolation, until they were encouraged to draw their way out of it.
Living in a society where boxes and labels are a way of life, forces one to hide and resent the parts of themselves that are not accepted. Never being strictly one thing or another fostered the realization that “I am all things” “We are all things”.
“Telling stories that are unheard, or undervalued gives greater meaning to any work.” -RA
“My objective is to make the viewer connect and think outside themselves or what they know to be true. To see beyond the pretty picture on the wall” -RA
Artist Statement
The most exploited, under-represented, and stereotyped story is that of the Black Woman. Only ever allowed to expose fragments of truth chained to satire. It’s time to break that chain and reclaim the scattered pieces of truth, Black WOMAN Is God
