The Dragon Can’t Dance takes its title from Earl Lovelace’s novel, engaging questions of visibility, performance, and power. The drawings focus on acts of looking and witnessing—how collective gazes form and how meaning moves through masking and opacity as strategies of power.
Through material density and sensorial opacity, the works create zones of privacy and possible escape from hypervisibility. They ask viewers to confront their desire to look and the power within that impulse, holding the work in tension between representation and opacity, exposure and concealment.
Permutation 1 Terra Incognita Archival pigment print, modeling paste, gold leaf, charcoal, paint, and glitter on paper 70 x 56 inches / 177.8 x 142.6 cm
Permutation 2: Saturated Soil, 2024 Archival pigment print; lightweight modeling paste and charcoal on paper 60 1⁄4 x 63 inches
Sketches of Character Tryptic, 79 ¹⁄₂ x 87 ¹⁄₄ inches, 80 x 52 inches, 78 ¹⁄₂ x 87 ¹⁄₄ inches, Charcoal and mixed media on paper, framed
Sketches of Character 1, 2021 Charcoal and mixed media on paper, framed 79 1⁄2 x 87 1⁄4 x 2 1⁄4 inches ] / 201.93 x 221.62 x 5.72 cm
Sketches of Character 3, 2021 Charcoal and mixed media on paper, framed 78 ¹⁄₂ x 87 ¹⁄₄ inches / 199.4 x 221.6 cm
Untitled, 2021 Charcoal and mixed media on paper 74 ¹⁄₂ x 103 ¹⁄₈ inches / 189.2 x 262.2 cm
Prospect 5: Yesterday We Said Tomorrow Installation View
Night Palm, 2022 Charcoal and gold leaf on paper Framed 32 1⁄2" x 24 1⁄2" x 2" inches / 82.55 x 62.23 x 5.08 cm
Twice Pressed Cane, 2022 Charcoal and gold leaf on paper Framed 32 1⁄2" x 24 1⁄2" x 2" inches / 82.55 x 62.23 x 5.08 cm
Before Sleep / Summoning, 2022 Charcoal and mix media on paper Framed 32 3⁄4" x 24 3⁄4" x 2" inches / 83.19 x 62.87 x 5.08 cm
Mouthfull, 2019 Charcoal and gold leaf on cut paper, framed 42" x 37" inches / 106.68 x 93.98 cm
Breadfruit, 2020 Charcoal and gouache on paper 55 x 41.5 inches / 139.7 x 105.41 cm
Pigtails, 2020 Charcoal and gouache on paper 55 x 41 1⁄2 Inches / 139.7 x 105.41 cm
Du Boys (1), 2020 Charcoal and gold leaf on paper 32 x 56 inches / 81.3 x 142.2 cm
Skylarking, 2022 Charcoal, black glitter, and gold leaf on paper, 60" x 50" inches / 152.4 x 127 cm
Skylarking 2, 2022 Charcoal and mixed media on paper, framed 46 1⁄2" x 52" Inches / 118.11 x 132.08 cm
KISS MI NECK BACK, Charcoal and gold leaf on paper 72 x 71 inches / 182.88 x 180.34 cm
Vessel Charcoal and gold leaf on paper 74 x 54 inches / 187.9 x 137.1
Mother’s Milk, 2017 Mixed Media
Of All the Ways to Forget, 2020 Charcoal and gold leaf on paper 57 x 91 Inches / 144.78 x 231.14 cm
Golden Kicks/ “A weh yuh get da new Clarks deh, daddy?” Charcoal and gold leaf on paper 50x 60 inches / 127 x 152.4 cm