Black Water Memory is the first Vessel Study in the Energy Reserve Systems universe. The work moves through water, breath, and memory to explore how the body holds pressure and finds release over time — asking what the vessel can teach us about memory, grief, and renewal. Built as a looping, atmospheric film, the study unfolds through a series of chambers — gestures of bracing, flicker, breath, and settling — that return like waves. The vessel becomes both container and archive, holding traces of tension, survival, and quiet repair.

ERS Hotline is an anonymous art hotline and durational public work. Anyone may call, leave a message, and release what they’re carrying with no playback and no expectation of response. The work forms part of an ongoing vessel study, engaging the history of Marcus Garvey’s Black Star Line and the idea of vessels as carriers of memory, migration, trauma, and restoration. Throughout the year, the project circulates through public and semi-public space in the form of posters and postcards, inviting quiet encounters within daily life as the hotline slowly builds a living archive, tracing shifts in emotional climate through the voices of those who choose to speak.

Energy Reserve Systems (ERS) is an evolving artistic universe and durational research series exploring how emotion becomes energy. Through sound, installation, moving image, objects, and participatory works, ERS studies how memory, technology, and the body store, transmit, and transform feeling over time. The project unfolds through a sequence of Vessel Studies, each examining a different state within the system.

Handle With Care is a participatory installation centered on emotional exchange and quiet ritual. Nearly two hundred custom mailroom boxes invite visitors to deposit anonymous emotional letters — confessions, memories, grief, gratitude, and release. An ambient score, deconstructed from the ERS project, fills the space and turns the room into a collective listening vessel. Over time, the installation becomes both archive and reliquary — a living record of what people carry, and what they choose to let go. EXHIBITION: Hannah Traore Gallery, New York September 25 – November 16, 2024

Kitty’s World is an animated talk-show series created by interdisciplinary artist Kitty Ca$h. The project blends music, video, animation, and installation to explore identity, culture, and community through humor and social commentary. At the center of the series is a 3D avatar version of Kitty — a conduit for memory, pop culture, and Black identity. The avatar becomes a sociopolitical mirror, challenging stereotypes while celebrating Black expression, language, and history. Each episode moves between storytelling and reflection, addressing contemporary issues alongside personal narrative. The series champions unapologetic Blackness and invites viewers to engage with the richness, complexity, and joy of our culture.