Created in participation with the Creative Corridor Challenge for North Long Beach, District 9. A cultural mural that’s representative of the Samoan community, of which many reside in this neighborhood of North Long Beach The taupou (female figure) performs an ‘ava ceremony - a cultural practice of formally welcoming guests to one’s home, village and community. The wording, “O le ala i le pule, o le tautua” translates that the path to leadership is through service - a Samoan proverb of wisdom shared among families and communities for generations. A Spanish translation is also included in the mural, in order to share with Spanish speaking neighbors in the community as well.

Created and showcased as part of Left Behind to Bring Them Home at PIEAM (Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum). This exhibit is our land acknowledgement practiced in ceremony between indigenous artists (Tongva & Pasifika) of the saltwater. Embedded in this Winter Sun are stories and relationships between our Tongva and Pacific Island cultures, such as voyaging, navigation, indigenous science, origins and reciprocity.

Painted as part of Pasifika Transmissions program at PIEAM in 2021, where an artist is asked to connect to and respond to an ancestor piece at the museum. The mural is a response to a hand-woven sail that was made on the atoll island of Polowat, by the hands of the women of the chief’s house. The sail will be displayed in front of the mural, with the spiraling energy from Polowat and the vibrations from the hands of the women are to be visually pushed like the wind into the sail itself. The verbiage, “WE ARE ACCOUNTABLE TO EACHOTHER, WE ARE ACCOUNTABLE TO THE LAND.” is a guiding principle within the culture of Polowat.

Commissioned work to be exhibited at the Asian Pacific Islander Civic Engagement Fund convening in Los Angeles, January 2019. The pieces depict motifs drawn from the natural world, the various phases of seafaring canoes and ancient concepts of wayfinding and navigation. The abstract background pattern represents the wildness and unpredictability of the ocean, contrasted by the orderliness and repetition of the cultural motifs - perhaps the way our ancestors made sense of the world around them in order to navigate through it, and find islands of destination along their journies. Across the three panels are the words that pose the eternal question - WHERE ARE WE GOING?

Commissioned by Long Beach Dept of Health & Human Services in 2024, this piece tells a story of the struggle of our Pacific Islander community’s experience with physical and mental health, and difficulties navigating our health care systems. Shown as a long winding river finding it’s way through a harsh desert, we can still find moments of joy, growth and accomplishments in that tough journey, just as the river finds nourishment in the land and reciprocates nourishment to foster the plant and animal life along it’s banks. A second layer reveals itself to tell another version of the long hard way. How do we get to our whole, healthy selves? How do we get to 100%? For our community, due to challenges we face, it seems we have to take the long way to 100: 1+1+1+1+1+1 etc… It is a pathway, but it’s long, slow and difficult. We know we'll learn many lessons, that can lead to better health outcomes.