If Heaven Had Heights
Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans
2023
If Heaven Had Heights reimagines oppositional fashion as a site of aspiration, transformation, and Black self-determination. Transposing what is often coded as deviance into a language of possibility, the work considers how acts of refusal function as critical stages of growth. Through exaggerated forms and layered constructions, figures emerge within a space of becoming. Rebellion operates not simply as resistance, but as a declaration of life and agency.
Drawing from both hip-hop culture and African spiritual traditions, the series constructs a cosmology in which defiance becomes generative, opening pathways toward new ways of being. In this framework, ascent is not granted, but forged through the audacity to exist beyond imposed limits and imagine oneself otherwise.