Plight of the Pigeon is a collection of original photographs and poems that asks what remains after inheritance and faith and violence and the versions of ourselves born out of shame or survival.

The pigeon is often treated as pest or flying rodent, despite its forced life of domestication and service, all before being cast aside. Now, finding home in every crevice and perch in a city scape.

I became fixated on similar contradictions; in the lives we overlook, stories we inherit, and the quiet forms of resistance that emerge when we refuse to stop looking.

Moving through innocuously bright neighborhoods, stale train cars, dated kitchens, vacant lots overgrown with wildflowers, and humid funeral homes, Plight of the Pigeon observes the ordinary landscapes where identity is inherited, tested, forged, and remade. Race, masculinity, grief, desire, faith, labor, and tenderness surface not to be explained, but as conditions of everyday life. In some ways, this collection became a ritual of witnessing, an attempt to stay with what is difficult rather than rush toward certainty.