I know. Multidisciplinary artist sounds totally pretentious but hear me out.
I'm a visual artist specializing in XR and web design/development, graphic design, and photography. My strength lies in the combined knowledge of all these skills, not just a singular one. Think of me as a digital swiss army knife ready to bring the best tool(s) to tackle your next creative project. I also bring passion, creativity, and an almost unhealthy love of problem-solving (It's my stubborn Taurus nature). I love a good challenge, and I always strive to bring the best to a project.
I've worked with countless artists, small businesses, and non-profits to bring their visions to life with websites, album covers, promo shots, brochures, flyers, and beyond. I’d love to do the same for your next project.
For Black History Month, I wanted to highlight some of the MANY Black innovators who invented or upgraded items we use in our daily lives. Using Snapchat’s built-in ML, you can scan over 25 different items to learn about the inventor and history behind them. Music by Bobby Watson.
This is a location based AR interactive story. Help a friend who has been framed for murder find the evidence they need to clear their name. Created with Lightship VPS and Unity
Visit new cities and unlock souvenir hats to add to your collection. This lens will dynamically change the city listed on the hat depending on location. Hat colors will also change based on state/country colors or local sports teams. Each new hat is saved to a collection for later use.
This is a demo created with Lisa Szolovits for Lightship’s VPS World Tour Hackathon. It is a location based AR piece that utilizes spatial audio. Unlock different instruments to create a full song.
I was obsessed with mood rings as a kid, so I decided to create an AR version. It utilizes Snap’s hand recognition and finger joint tracking. As soon as a hand is recognized, a ring appears on your ring finger and the filter starts.
I participated in the 5th Wall Forum Connector program, which paired up folks in the theater and tech industries to create new immersive project. My teammate Rachel Ho and I pitched ‘Lookout’, an immersive theater AR experience about a family of aliens in need of help. The video shows a demo a fake app experience before using AR to ‘unlock’ a virtual weapon to use on an actor playing a security guard.
Since we all had to party at home in 2020, I wanted to make a festive lens to celebrate the end of a hard year. It utilizes Snap’s facial expression recognition. Raise your eyebrows to change hats and smile to release the horns and confetti.
I created this AR game as part of a Snapchat Residency. I updated the classic Simon Says game using Snapchat’s gesture and facial expression recognition. Can you beat the monster at Simon Says?
I was inspired by the large Black Lives Matter Street Mural that was Painted on the streets of DC (and now in other places). I created an instagram filter to allow anyone to virtually add the mural to their own streets. It has over 100k impressions.
I loved the show, ‘Dispatches from Elsewhere’, and there was an early scene when some street signs became animated when the character passed by them. I decided to experiment and create the effect in AR.
I had the wonderful opportunity to create this fun flyer for the VR/AR Association. The New York Chapter hosted a virtual party in Altspace VR, and sent pizza to the homes of the partygoers.
This piece was created at the MIT Hackathon along with the amazing team of Ann Bennett, Xavier Apostol, and Tammy Rose. The pieces tells the story of 7-year-old Frankie Legree whose African American family integrated an all-white Miami neighborhood in 1957. We built this experience using the new Nreal glasses(and later made a mobile version).
This is a demo app of an augmented reality gallery tour using the artwork in my apartment. The app recognizes the artwork when the viewer holds their phone up to it, and it displays detailed information about each piece.
Kultured Child is the brainchild of writer, Angelika Beener. We used images of prominent black icons that her son drew as the foundation of the design. In 2020, Angelika wanted a fresh new look for the site that invoked the look and feel of the 70s.
Bobby Watson’s Gates BBQ Suite is a tribute to both Kansas City’s and our own family’s history with barbecue. I incorporated both within the design by using photos of Gates (our family’s fav), as well as some from our own bbq experiences.
When I went upstate to visit a mentor and fellow artist, he took me around to some scenic areas to shoot. Though I was surrounded by the beautiful landscape, it turned out I was most interested in photographing rundown barns. He found all the cool spots.
I’ve had the pleasure of working with Anne Pollack of Your Flute Works for years. This website is a redesign from an original that was built in 2004. Anne and I wanted the site to be vibrant, inviting, responsive, and easy to navigate.
I was asked to redesign a website for the American Chamber Ensemble. One of the main goals was to create a contemporary responsive site that showcased more videos and images.
During Hurricane Irene, my brother and I decided to brave the storm and walk a few blocks to Times Square. We were surprised to see it busier than we thought. The city really doesn’t ever sleep.
I designed the album cover and 16-page b jooklet for T.K. Blue’s album, which is a beautiful suite dedicated to Randy Weston. Photography by Enid Farber.
For my grad school thesis, I explored the healing power of music. As a self-proclaimed ‘music addict’, I was fascinated with how much I relied on music to get through each day. I created a mock site for ‘music addiction’ that was a combo of animation, photos, videos, and text. It also chronicled me and my brother’s relationship with music.
Michelle Halsell is a digital creative who wanted a website to showcase the many wonderful projects she’d worked on. I had the pleasure of working on some of them with her. This remains one of my favorite sites.
I wanted to create a very New York website for the 29th Street Sax Quartet. The illustrations are based off of photographs I had taken around the subways.
Check Cashing Day is an album by Bobby Watson that was inspired by Martin Luther King’s lesser known part of the ‘I have a Dream’ speech. In it MLK uses the metaphor of a bad check to describe the way African Americans were treated during that time.
I created ‘Niche’ in the early 2000s. I was trying to find my way as an artist, and this was a pep talk to myself to keep moving in the direction of my passion even when it was hard. View Project
This was an older version of my portfolio site, and it remains one of my favorites. Each vending machine was a particular section of the website. When you clicked on one, the ‘prize’ came out revealing the content.
