Artist. Healer. Alchemist. I make work that remembers, transforms, and awakens.
Featured Altars
A one-of-one wearable sculpture blending portraiture, textile layering, braided fiber work, and ceremonial silhouette. Built from reconstructed garments and hand-assembled details, the piece evokes ancestral memory, folk ritual, and the emotional architecture of inheritance. The elongated braids function as both adornment and tether — connecting body, history, and spirit across cultures and generations.
Part fashion object, part altar, the work exists between garment and installation.
A reconstructed trench coat transformed into a symbolic map of migration, instinct, and survival. Combining patchwork textile traditions with animal imagery and layered cultural motifs, the work examines the relationship between camouflage and visibility , protection and performance.
The jaguar emerges as both guardian and witness, stitched together through fragments of memory, geography, and ancestral pattern language.
Designed as a wearable narrative object, the piece moves between streetwear, ritual garment, and contemporary art.
A reconstructed denim jacket transformed into a playful meditation on mortality, memory, and celebration. Centered around a hand-built skull motif framed by vibrant floral forms, the work draws from folk traditions, ceremonial symbolism, and the visual language of remembrance rituals across cultures.
The contrast between denim workwear and delicate handcrafted textile elements creates a tension between everyday life and the sacred. Rather than presenting death as darkness, the piece approaches it as continuation, transformation, and joyful remembrance.
Constructed through layered fiber techniques and textile assemblage, the garment exists between fashion object, folk relic, and contemporary wearable sculpture.
A symbolic wearable piece exploring myth, femininity, and the natural world. The central figure emerges crowned in deep crimson forms, framed by antler-like structures and surrounded by floral elements that reference transformation and spiritual rebirth.
Constructed through layered textile collage, embroidery, and sculptural embellishment, the garment reads as both protection and invocation, a contemporary folk icon carrying echoes of pagan ritual and woodland mythology.
The Alchemist’s Path
Pia Tuulia Cäbble
As an artist of Finnish and African American descent, I examine Blackness as an inherited force carried through the body, across geography, and through ancestral memory. Growing up in Finland, often as the only Black person in my environment, I first understood Blackness through difference: rhythm, movement, physical strength, fearlessness, and a sense of power I could feel before I could name it. What marked me as Other also gave me access to a deep source of resilience.
My work begins from the contradiction of being both celebrated and persecuted for the same force. I transform that tension through painting, braided hair, natural materials, and ritual. I am interested in what exists beyond the limits of recorded history: what remains in the body, in spirit, and in inherited memory. Through portraits, altars, and symbolic environments, I return to histories of migration, violence, spirituality, and survival, not to remain in injury, but to uncover what has endured.
My practice asks how one can access something older than history in order to see themselves clearly. The figures in my work are often Black and Brown because I am interested in centering bodies that have been excluded, mythologized, desired, feared, and misunderstood. Whether I am addressing African diasporic histories, European witch hunts, spiritual archetypes, or the body as a site of pleasure and power, I use Blackness as a lens through which hidden histories become visible and transformation becomes possible.
Dance as Liberation
Dance as a Liberation extends into live performance as a solo and collaborative practice. I have been commissioned to perform in public, site-based contexts throughout Brooklyn, working as a solo performer, choreographer, and ensemble member. These performances translate embodied research into movement narratives that respond to place, audience, and collective energy. Whether staged or improvised, the work treats dance as a communal offering—inviting viewers into an accessible, emotionally resonant experience rooted in presence, participation, and storytelling through the body. Performance becomes both a ritual and a shared moment, where movement functions as a bridge between individual experience and collective witnessing.
Performance & Choreography
Rooted in a decades-long career as a performer and choreographer, my work spans live stages, television, and site-specific performance across five continents. I have toured internationally with IFE throughout Latin America, presented solo performances across New York City—including House of YES in Brooklyn—and appeared in television productions in Finland, other parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Across cultures and formats, my practice centers the body as a vessel for story, ritual, and collective experience.
World of
Tarot
World of Tarot began as an interdisciplinary live work conceived and produced for Artcrawl (2023), uniting artists and audiences from East New York and Ridgewood, Queens. I developed the original concept, designed and constructed a series of costumes, and led a collaborative team of set builders and painters to create a fully immersive environment. Blending theatrical staging, costume presentation, and dance-based performance, the project was extensively documented through photography and video. These materials later evolved into printed cards and archival works, reflecting an early commitment to collaboration, world-building, and carrying a vision from concept through live embodiment and lasting form.
Fashion show
Filmed during my 2024 Brooklyn fashion showcase, this work captures the energy, movement, and collaborative spirit surrounding the presentation of my designs. Each garment was developed over 12–16 months in my Brooklyn studio through sustained experimentation with form, material, and narrative. The accompanying images trace that process—revealing the slow transformation from raw materials to finished wearable artworks, and highlighting fashion as performance, ritual, and storytelling in motion..
