Storytelling is the root of all record keeping. I believe that by diversifying our cultural narrative we strengthen our mutual ability to survive as a species, a genus, a class, a kingdom, or a life.

Growing up as a first-generation U.S. citizen on my mother’s side, I became engaged with the gated concept of the “American Dream.” My work seeks to respectfully explore influences encountered in that day to day navigation towards freedom. As a woman living and working alongside industry in the shadow of prior generational legacies; my work teases out practical and popular contradictions.

By pulling on the threads of economic devices, environment, place, and time; I find means to question these existing systems and narratives. My physical practice employs sentimental manipulations of media, scale, and space, allowing me to bare the contradictions within my own life; to shake loose my expectations and begin again. I have a love affair with metal work and mechanics, as well as reinventing spaces using light and sound. I do not shy away from labor or wasted labor. This endeavor is often full of whimsy and folly. It is my reckless hope that others will bring their own follies to this work and find joy in those common struggles, so they may too begin again with fresh eyes.