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Dutch Pot in Diaspora
Dutch Pot in Diaspora is a multidisciplinary art series exploring how food carries memory, identity, and cultural inheritance across generations and geographies. Rooted in Afro-Caribbean diasporic experiences, the dutch pot becomes both a literal vessel and a symbolic container for stories of migration, survival, care, and belonging.
Through collage, ceramics, poetry, research, and community-based workshops, the series traces recipes of remembering: ancestral lineage, kitchen rituals, migration stories, access, displacement, and resilience. Blending lived experience with collective storytelling, Dutch Pot in Diaspora honours food as a site of connection, healing, and future-building.
Personal
Practice
Within Dutch Pot in Diaspora, my personal practice unfolds through collage and mixed media art. Guided by conversations, reflections, family recipes, diasporic stories, pantry staples, domestic objects, and personal memories, this work follows the traces of culture held in everyday materials.
Collage becomes a place to question, gather, and remember. Through layered fragments, I explore how recipes become archives, how objects hold family histories, and how culture is passed down through taste, touch, and adaptation.
Anthology Project
The Dutch Pot in Diaspora anthology gathers Afro-diasporic food stories, recipes, reflections, and creative responses into a collective archive. Rather than treating recipes as simple instructions, the anthology considers them as vessels of memory, holding stories of ancestry, migration, care, survival, and transformation.
Courageous Conversations
Courageous Conversations is a workshop and gathering series where food becomes a portal for reflection, storytelling, and community care.
Through shared cooked meals, poetry prompts, and facilitated dialogue via conversation cards, participants are invited to explore the memories, emotions, and cultural connections held in the foods they carry.