The body of work
Five projects — a nonlinear documentary, a video experience, a published StoryMap, a character compendium, and a participatory design study. Each works inside one or more of the six Reckoning in Pixels pillars.
Land Possession/Dispossession and the Creation of Black Urban Ecologies
Immersive interactive documentary — nonlinear, built on the Klynt platform
A decolonial inquiry into the interplay between land, power, policy, culture, and resistance in the creation of ecologies of knowledge that continue to transform African American urban environments.
The Vibrations of Resistance
Video experience
The past never really leaves us. It pulses beneath our present, not just as a memory but as a force that shapes who we are today. Themes of struggle, identity, and resilience are carried forward across generations, creating a continuous narrative that refuses to be silenced.
Seven decades of coordinated dispossession, mapped
ArcGIS StoryMap
Brooklyn stands at the epicenter of urban displacement, gentrification, and state-sanctioned land dispossession in New York City. This project investigates how Brooklyn, more than any other borough, became the testing ground for development strategies that devalue Black life and extract Black wealth under the guise of progress.
Food as cultural evidence
Character compendium — 64 Food Guardians across 8 world regions
Demystifying Food Origins uses character design, agricultural history, and regional storytelling to reconnect fruits, vegetables, grains, roots, and tree crops to the people and places that sustained them. It treats food as cultural evidence while distinguishing botanical origin, cultural anchor, crop movement, and artistic interpretation.
Co-Designing Alternative Futures
Participatory design research — pilot program framework
A pilot program addressing lack of access to healthy foods, green spaces, and vulnerability to heat in New York City’s most affected areas — co-designed with public schools, students and faculty, community gardens, private businesses, and municipal organizations.
How the work is organized
Reckoning in Pixels defines six thematic pillars. A project is not filed under a pillar as a label — the pillar states the structural force being examined and the consequence being documented, and the project has to carry both.
The pillars name instruments, not places. A case study is located because that is where the evidence was gathered and the relationships were built; the instrument it traces rarely stops where the case study does. Redlining maps were drawn for cities across the United States. The East New York framework was designed to be duplicable. The Food Guardians span eight world regions and 64 characters. Wherever you are working, the questions are portable even when the ground is not.