I Am a Walking History
48 x 36 in | Mixed media on wood with handmade frame
From The Conversation series

This piece is a declaration made through accumulation.

Built from layered collage, ink, and paint, I Am a Walking History holds multiple timelines at once. Fragments of prints—my own alongside those of Gretchen and Reisha—overlap and interrupt one another, refusing a single, linear narrative. Nothing here stands alone. Everything is inherited, borrowed, remembered.

The figure draws inspiration from one of my collectors, Mr. Jones—a former model whose impeccable wardrobe reads like a personal archive, embodying how history can be carried, styled, and lived rather than simply remembered. Mr. Jones is wise, yet gentle with a verbose way of speaking that led him to tell me “I AM a walking history” on a warm afternoon in June.

As part of The Conversation series, this work speaks to dialogue across time—between artists, between generations, between lived experience and collective memory. Collaboration is not hidden here; it is structural. The shared prints remain visible, honoring the fact that identity is rarely authored alone.

Wood grounds the piece, reinforcing the idea of endurance. It bears the weight of the layers, much like a body bears memory—quietly, persistently. The handmade frame seals the work with intention, marking it not as an artifact of the past, but as something still in motion.

I Am a Walking History is about presence.
About carrying stories without being crushed by them.
About knowing that to exist fully is to remember—and to keep moving anyway.