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Although the photographs below were created as inspiration for my paintings, each image can stand independently. Speaking their own language while representing and referencing the alphabet or musical score.

The creation process involved listening to jazz while dancing and posing. Jazz music is, according to Wynton Marsalis, "Freedom of expressions with a groove" "Jazz music comes from those who are outside something but in the middle of it" (Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, 116-121). Marsalis refers to the reality of oppression in black people's daily lives to which the necessity of jazz was created.

I was exposed to jazz at an early age by my father. I have recently found the connection between jazz and creole. I continue to explore the ideas of language being a barrier as well as a connector.