Find Your Way In The Garden (2023)

Scanography Ink and fruits on printer scanner

15 x 30 Inches 

Find Your Way in the Garden maps a journey of discovery, intimacy, and interconnection, using scanography to embed fruits directly into the image-making process. The garden becomes a site of metaphorical and physical exploration, representing both Black cultural inheritance and personal cultivation. Fruits act as symbols of nourishment, memory, and abundance, while the scanner captures their impermanent forms with meticulous fidelity. The work interrogates the pathways through which knowledge, resilience, and identity are passed down, drawing attention to the labor required to navigate inherited structures and cultivate a sense of belonging. By integrating natural materials with immediate technological processes, the piece evokes a dialogue between permanence and ephemerality, highlighting the tension between the body, nature, and memory. The garden functions as both sanctuary and classroom, emphasizing the necessity of observation, care, and self-discovery within landscapes shaped by heritage, migration, and systemic inequities. Find Your Way in the Garden ultimately asks viewers to recognize the layers of growth, struggle, and beauty that comprise individual and collective journeys, positioning the garden as a metaphor for self-realization and intergenerational knowledge.