Iyalode Abere Bivalva Olla Reliquario (Phara de Faraones Miramar) / Bivalve Iyalode Abere Barkbox Vessel Reliquary (Phara from Pharoahs Miramar) 2022-2023 was created with Intimate ephemera, Environmental Waste cast in domestic construction materials including: Shedded Blue Macaw feathers, Miami Beach collected coral, turquoise pigment, metallic paint, acrylic paint, nail salon glitter, Haitian textile, discarded bamboo fence, perfume bottle, fake & real funerary flowers, KN95 Facemask, building stud, aluminum lathe, industrial floor resin, wall insulation foam.

A Barkbox reliquary from West Africa would commonly be carved wood, bearing the cremated ancestral remains of families passed on as vernacular sculpture across generations. The two figures in this bamboo structure, guard one another back to back with stoic, turquoise stone like regard. Iyalode is the highest ranking female chieftan in Orisha culture originating in West Africa, and prominently called upon during the birthing process or cuarantena period after labor in traditional Caribbean homes. Doulas and Iyalode are among the matriarchal care structure preserving fertility health traditions in collaboration with doulas, santeras, manbos and botanicas who offer lifesaving rituals during home births.

Abere is the Yoruba word for Picralima plant used for medicinal properties as a protection against disease and commonly used for malaria that is prevalent in tropical regions like the Caribbean.