Futile & Fertile Plantain (Catherine of Liberty City) diptych depicts a mixed race Nicaraguan & Guatemalan American pregnant woman within a plantain hammock sanctuary. Glowing in a woven golden textile, the figure gazes beyond the viewer, beholding her fertile torso. Plantain stalk blossoms bear fruit beneath vibrant, Southern heat. Though the blossoms are futile, the bananas ripen revealing their clandestine, rhizomatic fertility.

Celebrating the interwoven matriarchal currencies surviving conflicting climate and fertility crisis in Florida, the work conjures both vulnerability and strength inherent in the subject's biographical and biological support system. Translating survival strategies into valuable assets amidst an increasingly violent plantation labor system, mixed race, status, class families in America continue adapting plantology wisdom in relation to their sacred land.

One of the most ubiquitous plant species propogated across nearly every continent on Earth, the variety and durability of the fruit established its survival on being a pre-metallurgic currency vital to equatorial economies- most commonly found in recipes of Africa, Asia and the Americas. Evolving into modern currency, patacon is celebrated as a communal ritual, bonding economy with community building. Harnessing the popularity in every day life, Argentina began offering "Patacones" as government bonds during the economic crisis at the turn of the 21st century. Harnessing the plantology wisdom surviving in matriarchal social structures, platano is used for hydration regulation in botanica medicine.

The Linea Negra series photographs (2008-present) documents the inception of gender, power and race structures from slogans, slang, maxims and "old wives tales" to internalized, institutional violence. The works celebrate the melanin line appearing during gestation (most prominent in women of color) as a biological pieta; the first biographical mark on the procreative body and the first sign of our creative humanity.