“PREY WITH ME”

EAT.PREY.LOVE. VOL. 1

- Sold for $2,500 (2023) to a private collector - Currently on exhibition at Cohiba Lounge in Bridgeport, CT

Date of creation: 07/2023

Size: 30 x 40” original

Medium/Materials: Acrylic and Oil | Level III Gallery Wrapped Canvas, Matte Varnish with Gloss Varnish on Frame

The Series:

Inspired by real heartbreak, this collection is titled, “Eat.Prey.Love.”, and explores the highs and lows that come with vulnerability, love capacity, mirror work, and healing.

Each painting is an interpretive piece of my experience of love and heartbreak. Striving to transmute relationship trauma through healing expression in art, I seal each painting with affirmations on where I stand years later reflecting on the relationships that molded me.

The Inspiration:

This piece was inspired by real heartbreak. It was one of the hardest paintings I’ve ever done. So many emotions flowed through me over a period of 8 days that it took to paint this. Layered with oils and acrylics, I began with an assignment given to me by a trauma therapist - paint what you feel. A musician as much as an artist, I started naming my feelings with a song - “Be With You” by Mary J. Blige. This My Life album became the soundtrack that I kept on repeat as I painted and cried with the schedule of pouring out my emotions onto the canvas, eating, and then going for a walk on my freshly repaired achilles tendon. I was inspired deeply by the emotions that

Past Exhibitions:

SOLO EXHIBITION (CT) - 07/2023

L.A. FASHION WEEK (CA) - 10/2023

BLACK GIRL ART SHOW (GA) - 08/2025