I am deep in the studio, working on my upcoming exhibition We Walk Toward the Water.

This series is both personal and collective. It honors the women of the Caribbean diaspora. Mothers. Caretakers. Community builders. Women who arrived in the U.S. during the 1980s and 1990s.

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These women crossed oceans to nurture America’s children and elders. Often at the expense of the families they left behind.

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Their journey of sacrifice and resilience shaped the world I grew up in. Their memory flows through this work.

Through more than twenty large-scale paintings, I am exploring the tension between migration and belonging. The beauty and the cost of survival. The truths carried across water.

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This is a meditation on lineage. On memory. On forward motion. A story that is historic and urgently present.

-Vivia