What is Marrow Drift

Marrowdrift Studios is the creative vessel of R.K.B., a Jamaican-American artist, writer, and trained and practicing attorney primarily based in Mexico City (CDMX).

Born in Jamaica and brought to the United States at age four, R.K.B has lived along the spine of the East Coast of the U.S.—from New York, through Pennsylvania (Allentown, then Pittsburgh), and down to Wake Forest, North Carolina, where he  studied law.

His work is shaped by these migrations—legal, geographic, and spiritual. As a first-generation artist and lawyer, he is drawn to boundaries: how we, as people, define them, how they rupture, and what emerges in their wake.

At Marrowdrift, R.K.B creates paintings, sculptural pieces, digital works, and textural drawings that explore the interstices of memory, identity, perception, culture, literature, and time. He often carves directly into surfaces, layer pigments like sediment, or dissolve forms mid-motion—inviting the viewer into a space of ritual and reconsideration.

This is art as inquiry. Art as evidence. Art as reclamation.

Here, at Marrowdrift the mind and the poetic hand yearn for one another: structured yet spontaneous, reverent yet interrogative. Each piece is an archive, a fracture, a possibility.