My studio practice investigates the ways that traditional African food staples serve as a conduit for ancestral memory and cultural identity throughout the Diaspora.  Inspired in part by the popular Netflix series High on the Hog, which examined how African American cuisine transformed America, I use sculptural form to reposition food production and consumption as an alchemy that satiates the body and the spirit. In this context, nourishment or sustenance, has a double meaning that refers both to the corporeal and the incorporeal–to this world and to “other” worlds.   Food carries the promise of life as well as the seeds of multi-generational memory and cultural identity.  It is a mediator of meaning, connecting the past to the present, the world of the living to the world of the ancestors.