This work centers the live oak as both witness and archive. Draped in Spanish moss and rooted in tidal land, the tree stands as a living record of survival, adaptation, and memory in the Lowcountry. Its twisted limbs stretch across land and sky, echoing generations who bent but did not break.
Rendered in layered, mosaic-like planes of color, the composition draws from painterly modernism while grounding itself firmly in place. The saturated greens, blues, and earthen tones evoke marsh, sky, and soil—elements that have sustained Gullah Geechee life for centuries. The absence of figures is deliberate: presence is felt through landscape, through what remains and continues.
Live Oak, Lowcountry is not nostalgia. It is continuity—land remembering people, and people remembering land.