‘From the time I began painting and drawing, I have made self-portraits. As my style, technique, and medium change, the one constant has been my effort to reimagine my image through my art. It has been my way of understanding my place in the cultures, spaces, and situations that I travel through. Growing up in the South to a blended Black and Swiss family, much of my identity was constructed through a process of self-invention to which my art was central. In my paintings, I often depict figures in ambiguous locations. Through colour and the idiosyncratic visual language that I have developed, I project myself and those around me into a world of my own making. Using clothing, facial features, hairstyles, and other objects, I try to confuse traditional depictions and understandings of race, culture, and social class.’