Statement of Intent I am a draftswoman who deals in portraiture. Working with rudimentary tools and materials, I try to recreate complex entities. Currently, my work exists within the realms of identity art. With the figure I explore the dynamics of being both engaged and disengaged with definitions of skin as an all-encompassing and singular entity. Due to my involvement in two distinct and diverse cultures, Nigerian and American, I am consumed with the idea of dual natures and hyphenated realities. My process begins by looking at surfaces in the skin (landscapes of representation) and through meticulously detailed hatch marks I aim to portray the most fundamental elements which comprise a presence. Primarily, my intention is to investigate what makes up the skin, what I divulge is tonal gradations of individual moments in monochromatic interactions. The intersections of line and form commentate conceptually on the dissonance and merging of Blackness and Whiteness, of Otherness and Inclusiveness, within a persona. Regardless of the ground, the effect is to render an engraving, to leave an impression on the neutral space my subjects inhabit. This forces the viewer's eye solely on the flesh to interpret the intricacies which make up the figure and its character. In sum, the hyphenated reality of my subjective experience manifests in Black and White elements interjecting while existing in conjunction. The object is to reflect manifold internalized representations of selfhood within all personas, not simply my own.