Cottage on the Hill began as a meditation on the idea of home.

In America, the house on the hill has long symbolized the dream. Stability. Ownership. Arrival. A structure that represents safety and upward movement. In the Caribbean, the dream shifts slightly, but the symbolism remains. The homestead becomes legacy. Land passed down. A structure built slowly over time. A place that holds generations.

This series explores that tension.

The cottage sits elevated, almost idealized, yet the surface is fractured. Layers reveal themselves. Textures split and reassemble. What appears stable from a distance carries complexity up close.

For me, a home is both anchor and archive. It represents security, but it also holds secrets. Family history. Silence. Celebration. Conflict. Memory embedded in walls. A house can crack and still stand. It can weather storms and still hold what matters inside.

The fractured elements in this series speak to that resilience. Stability is rarely pristine. It is constructed, repaired, reinforced. The homestead becomes a living organism, imperfect but enduring.

Cottage on the Hill reflects a Caribbean dream that is less about excess and more about rootedness. About land. About inheritance. About building something that lasts beyond you.

It asks what it truly means to own a home.
Not just structurally, but emotionally.

Because sometimes the strongest foundations are the ones that have already been tested.