As an artist who deals primarily with the human figure to tell stories, discuss history, and convey feelings/emotions, I have always utilized the adult figure – both male and female – to address my concepts. Recently, however, the gravity of the American condition, particularly in her tendency to either dismiss or consume her own children – her black children – has caused me to shift gears in my current works. Children and teenagers, along with a new way of seeing the world in black and white mediums, have overtaken my thinking space, and my studio walls.