The photograhic exhibition 'Voodouistic Tendencies' expands upon the western ideology of what constitutes a true photographic portraiture by introducing the anthropological concept of liminality to further explore the traditional spiritual belief that human beings are made up of perceptible and imperceptible parts. A concept which can be found throughout sub-Sahara Africa and the African Diaspora such as Haitian, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Suriname and Louisiana.

'Voodouistic Tendencies' explores this concept through its removal of photographic realism in order to further explore the re-materialization of the camera's subject. By moving the focus of the imagery away from that which is tangle, the artist is able to extract an artistic representation that captures the essence of his subject in a state of existence that is 'neither here nor there'.This in turn, forces the viewer to rely on a more innate sense of viewing as they focus their attention on the fact that the subject is revealed within abstract shapes and geometric forms.

'Voodouistic Tendencies' serves to remind us that just as life exists before its physical appearance at birth, so too in death life exists in the form of spirtual ancestry within the cosmos.

'Voodouistic Tendencies' is part if a larger body of photographic imagery entitled 'Death is Only a Beginning' that I began working on in the summer of 2013.