Series 9 “Roots” 2025
This collection came about as I learned more about my lineage and what it means to be a root worker. I believe we can only survive this current hellscape by learning from the past. One of the things I remind myself of is how my ancestors survived the Trail of Tears and chattel slavery. Our ancestors can tech us so much.
-DeLoné
“What You Don’t Let In” $4500
This piece speaks about allowing yourself to be an observer. To care about the world without letting what's happening consume you. The Haint Blue around her acts like a shield much like it does for porches. You will see houses in the south paint the ceiling of their porch with with this blue to ward off the haints or bad spirits.The thought is they will confuse it for water or sky and will not pass it.
2025: 30” x40” pyrography & acrylic on wood
“A Future Prayed For” $950
Time travel is possible. Time travel happens when we acknowledge and learn from the past. When we understand all time is happening at once, and in that reasoning our ancestors are with us always. Time travel is essential. It is how we imagine futures. The future is right now. We are the future to our ancestors. We are also the past because we are someone’s ancestor right now. How do we make this moment in time better? How do we fight for a better world for our communities? This moment is important because it is past and future personified.
So we keep going and keep fighting for this exact moment, for it holds multitudes of possibilities.
2025: 30” x 13” pyrography & acrylic on wood
“Balancing Act” 2500
We balance so many things, There is growth in balance. Understanding the spiritual and physical being, the feminine and masculine, the light and dark. All things take balance. All things are made of everything.
This piece was originally created in 2022 and then reprised in 2025 with my current style.
2025: 24” x 48”pyrography & acrylic on wood
“Burnt At Both Ends” SOLD
This pieces is about the spiritual side and the physical side. Honoring my heritage, my ancestors, my gifts and having to exist in this physical place where the things they worked so hard for are being stripped away. Letting their hands hold mine through this life as they guide me.
2025: 13.5” x 25.5” pyrography, acrylic and gold leaf on wood
“The Light That Guides” $750
In Hoodoo, candle work is meant to represent our ancestors. To call on them, for guidance, protection and to learn from them.
2025: 13.5” x 25.5” pyrography, acrylic and liquid gold leaf on wood
“The Roots That Comfort” $750
This piece is about finding comfort in knowing where I belong. In knowing my people and their traditional practices. Root work, and gardening are my other passions, and this is one of two pieces I created to embody those feelings.
2025: 13.5” x 25.5” pyrography, acrylic and liquid gold leaf on wood
“The Roots That Ground” $750
This pieces is about finding that grounding energy in who you are and where you come from. The more I dug into my past and that of my lineage, I found myself feeling more and more connected to not just them, but the earth. Root work, and gardening are my other passions, and this is one of two pieces I created to embody those feelings.
2025: 13.5” x 25.5” pyrography, acrylic and liquid gold leaf on wood
“Honor Both” $750
This piece is about the parts of me that mourn while the others cling onto hope. About how these are both inside of me inside the chaos and watching atrocious all over the world. About how sometimes they are happening separately and sometimes all together, but the trick is to honor them both.
2025: 13.5” x 25.5” pyrography, acrylic and liquid gold leaf on wood