The Artist
The eye of the artist is undervalued, but it is a magical asset—the power to transform ordinary to extraordinary. The more personal the artist’s mission, the more ebullient the art. Early on, I decided that creativity is a mode that I had to master in my lifetime. An idea intrigues me, and I spend years exploring it. It becomes important for me to translate and communicate my new understanding, using whatever medium available. My creative journey began with visual art, next literary art, followed by documentary, then dramatic art. Discovering a way to use creativity in the natural sciences by infusing artistic study of shape and form with topology, physics and journalistic investigation was deeply rewarding. After many years, I realize the finest art is not what’s produced. It is each dance with inspiration, choreographed by the eye of the artist in a series of internal melodies and movements, intersecting across a lifetime, threading the quiet brilliance of one’s entire existence into a few small treasures.
Dramatic Arts
Baby Teeth (2018) a dark comedy about growing up, is both a short play and short screenplay with a runtime of approximately 21 minutes. In 2018, the play debuted at Manhattan Repertoire Theater, followed by University of Mount Vincent, and Harlem Harvest Festival. As a short screenplay it placed in 2021 film festivals, including: Award Winner Oregon Short Film Festival, Semi-Finalist Manhattan Short Film Festival, Nominee Georgia Comedy Film Festival, Dark Comedy Film Festival, Austin After Dark Film Festival, Holly Comedy Shorts.
Michael is a young, good-looking, ambitious, male who has everything going for him, except a full set of baby teeth. As a result of his defect, he is coddled by his mother, adored by strange child-bearing age women, emasculated by the guys at work, and the girl he likes doesn't take him seriously. He vows to make a change, but when he steps into the street a new man, he's unprepared for the harsh reality of being an adult.
Miss Perfection (2022) is a short literary fiction and short screenplay with a read time of 25 minutes. It placed in film festivals in 2022 including: Semi-Finalist Hollywood International Diversity Film Festival, Quarter-Finalist San Francisco International Screenwriting and Film Awards, Quarter-Finalist Big Apple Festival and Screenplay Competition, Golden Gate Film Festival, Freedom Festival International, Austin Under the Stars Film Festival, City of Angels Film Festival, Sydney Women’s International Film Festival, Los Angeles Television, Script and Film Festival.
Ladieah (Lady-ah), a tween, receives a cryptic, ominous warning from her aunt's deathbed. "Humanity is at war, and you're predetermined to lose." Bright and ambitious, Ladieah lives with her stepfather and financially dependent mom, who doesn't feel Ladieah's membership to the Genius Society is a good use of money. Ladieah seeks to get the funds herself, and ends up participating in an exuberant beauty pageant. Typical coming of age conflicts are magnified by a treacherous minefield of lust and influence as she is thrust headfirst into the crossroad between child and woman.
Vortex (2025) is a feature screenplay and novel in journalist/mystery/thriller genre. Against the backdrop of the burgeoning, new era of Big Oil lawsuits, Carolyn is a stay-at-home mom turned second-chance-career reporter, assigned to investigate financial gifts from Big Oil to universities in exchange for influence over curriculum and research. When she discovers a celebrated prodigy at the most prestigious program in Boston withdrew and disappeared a week before graduation, she sets out on a quest to find the enigmatic young woman, and uncovers a scandal that threatens to destroy them both.
OTHER PROJECTS
“Tourist with No Camera” - Short Literary Fiction and Short Stage Play 2006-2017
“Black From Islam: Daughters of the Diaspora” - Short Documentary Film 2009
Visual Arts
I have always been attracted to natural forms and portrait art. While an undergraduate student, I was not able to develop creativity in visual arts. After graduating, an extended trip to South America exposed me to Brazilian modernist Tarsila do Amaral. I was inspired by the emotion that color brought to the art. Today, the influence of artistic expressionism is strong in my writing.
