Sienna & Silk

Sienna & Silk began as a way of holding two things at once — a deep personal connection to the Bay Area, and a desire to paint Black women with the elegance and permanence they are so rarely afforded in classical portraiture. Each piece places a solitary figure against the familiar silhouette of the Golden Gate Bridge, its steel and cable reimagined as something closer to myth than infrastructure. Wrapped in silk and satin, bathed in amber and sienna light, these women are not passing through the landscape — they belong to it, the way the bridge does, the way the fog does. The bridge recurs throughout the series as more than backdrop: it is a symbol of crossing, of home, of the space between where we come from and where we're going. The result is a body of work that is both surreal and grounded, timeless and deeply personal — an ongoing love letter to a place, and a study in quiet, elegant power.