Cameos

Cameos marks a turning point in my practice — the first series of collages I created while living in Barbados as an adult in 2013. These small 9 x 12-inch assemblages, made on canvas, reflect a shift toward interpretive portraiture that blends the literal and abstract.

Continuing my movement away from found images, I began working exclusively with my own materials — painted paper and mylar — to explore pattern, gesture, and form. The titles are drawn from overheard phrases, song fragments, and the musical cadence of the Bajan dialect, which also shaped the texture and rhythm of the compositions themselves.

Cameos is both a study and a declaration — an early exploration of how portraiture can emerge through abstraction, sound, and material. Its formal and conceptual decisions continue to echo in my current work, anchoring an ongoing engagement with place, composition, and sound.