rayo & honey, Brooklyn, NY (2026)

rayo & honey creates Goods With Positive Intent: combining urban pop-culture & modern design aesthetic

Our desire is to create wall hangings that not only add adornment to patrons personal spaces but also to craft:

Text that prompts emotion in a work space. Phrases that inspires magic in a children’s space. Bold crisp text reminiscent of pop art motifs while incorporating a modern element, our p

ennants are each cut, pieced and designed by hand, in a Brooklyn NY studio, utilizing 100% organic cotton for pennants, oak for hang rods and laser cut felt letters. where are the phrases from? With rayo & honey I dip into the crates for iconic hip hop lyrics, Black & Latino pop-culture references, inspirational mantras and wondrous sayings of childhood that are motivational to Me. Each product combines cultural consciousness, subtle hand crafted details, and a mixture of textures. why pennants? Black & Latino popular culture is rarely seen in interior home decor. The affirmations tucked into the frames of mirrors, taped on the inside of cabinet doors and hung on the walls of my childhood home were encouraging but it never felt like they were for me. Those beautiful accolades did not “speak to me”. It is my hope that rayo & honey decor will compliment patrons spaces as well as encourage and inspire one to surround themselves with things that speak to our collective past & socially conscious future.

02/18/2026

On what would have been Toni Morrison’s 95th birthday I recall in 2019 having the honor to be commissioned by create totes for the premier of a documentary of her life “Pieces of Me”.
I am still humbled by the amount of freedom I was given in choosing which phrases I could work with. It felt immensely important to use words that resided outside of her books. To honor all of her incredible being, to feed my own delight of how “off top” every word she’s ever uttered was dazzling brilliance. I sequestered myself inside for days reading her speeches and watching interviews and jotting down sentience after sentence that was lightning down my spine. Ultimately what was chosen was “You’ve got to have the love and you’ve got to have the magic.” {from a 1977 interview about Song of Solomon} and “You are your own stories”, {from a graduation speech she gave at Wellesley College in 2004.}
Further expanding my heart, in 2020 this same tote was also chosen by Oprah for “Oprah’s Favorite Things”.

As I celebrate launching rayo & honey 11yrs ago, I continue to be fortified in the shaping of my own narrative and the boundless joy that has aligned with me in being able to work with Black women are one in a lifetime luminaries.

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02/14/2026

I’m so hyped to share that Rayo & Honey is now carried by the shop at the Studio Museum in Harlem!

The Studio Museum opened in 1968, right in the middle of Harlem, during a moment when Black artists were not being supported or shown in major institutions. It was built intentionally as a space for Black art. Over time, the Studio Museum has become more than a gallery. It’s a hub for conversation, learning, and experimentation — hosting exhibitions, talks, workshops, and partnerships that amplify voices too often overlooked in mainstream institutions.

Today, in its purpose-built home on West 125th Street, the Museum continues to elevate artists and cultural dialogue. To have Rayo & Honey inside a space where creativity and community meet is the sweetest of milestones as I approach celebrating 11yrs of creating pennants and goods with positive intent.

To know me in person is to know how long I’ve wanted to have my work at the . I hope when visiting you’ll stop by the and pick up a custom pennant, exclusive keychains and bookmarks or one of my pouches.

01/28/2026

I’m honored to be included in Ancestors in Progress III, opening at The Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn.

Curated by Hekima Hapa of , the exhibition reflects on legacy, cultural transmission, and the artistry that bridges generations. Bringing together ten Black artists working in textiles, fiber, and mixed media, the show centers material storytelling. Knotting, stitching, weaving, and embellishing become gestures that echo the hands that came before us while shaping what will one day be remembered.

My installation “Nothing Without Shadow” considers the architecture of how personal freedom is obtained, how it is imagined, claimed & built in real time, shaped as much by shadow as by light.

I hope you will join me at the opening this Sunday!
I’ll also be speaking at the Artist Talk on February 15.

Exhibition Dates: Feb 1 to 15
Opening Reception: Feb 1, 6:30 to 9:30 pm
Artist Talk: Feb 15, 5 to 7 pm

Thank you to and for the space to gather and share this work.

08/31/2025

The world is restless.
Voices clash, news cycles spin,
and the heavy weight of it all can feel endless.

Still, beneath the chaos,
there is space for your own clarity.
The possible act of turning inward.

The grounding comes when you honor yesterday,
forgive what you must,
and choose to be better today.

06/14/2025

STAND UP OR BE STOOD UPON
— a declaration born from the soil of defiance and the marrow of our ancestors.

As ICE raids escalate across cities—tearing families from their homes, stalking communities with the cold, faceless violence of bureaucracy—this is a time to remember who we are.
This is a time to act.

The United States has long danced on the sharp edge of contradiction—built on the backs of the enslaved, yet mythologizing freedom. But always, always, people have risen.
From the lunch counters of Greensboro to the migrant-led strikes in California fields.
From Harriet’s midnight sky to Stonewall’s bricks.
From Standing Rock to Selma.

This is our inheritance: protest as love. Disruption as dignity.
Refusal as a holy act.

Fighting against tyranny is not optional. Not now.
If we do not raise our collective voice—clear, intentional, unwavering—we risk a future where silence is mistaken for consent.

This pennant is visual psalm. A refusal.
Because what we stand for determines what stands after us.

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12/31/2024

I don’t have the formulation of eloquence with words that can accurately express how deeply 2023/2024 BEAT MY ASS.
As if the Universe was annoyed and chose a course of action based tough love because of my refusal to let go of people and situations that fully didn’t serve an evolved self. I did the internal work {yall, it’s the hardest work you’ll ever do} & sometime this past Spring I tapped out and surrendered to all I already knew to be true.
The shift felt immediate. So much goodness poured in filling in the cracks of heartbreak and bits of despair. A new body of work grew from seeds of inspiration I planted years ago. I traveled a bunch, made new friends and reconnected with old ones.
Read more poetry & books to myself than I have in years. Consumed so much soul shifting art. Sat in natural hot springs until it felt spiritual and began to sort through visions of what I wanted to create that aren’t pennants. Spent a milestone birthday on a beach belly laughing, feeling loved & celebrated. Made new friends and reconnected with old ones. Proudly ushered my babies into their 2nd year of college.
I realized my studio is the holiest place I know.
All the while creating with my two hands as I have for almost 10yrs, rayo & honey pennants that connect with so many people. It has been a very hard year to be working artist, creative and entrepreneur for many.
I am humbly thankful to still be able to live from what I do.
It’s astrologically rumored that 2025 will usher in a new cycle of prosperity in many forms for Virgos. I intend to keep expanding this open heart of mine, traveling for the sake of adventure, sharing my new work, loving my people hard and being ever so grateful for the lessons I thought had broke me when really they set me free.

#2024

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