In my practice, I create multimedia, research-based projects to map my engagement with binaries in American acculturation. I make my work to investigate my own relationship to attention, perception, repression, and beauty in order to accept the uncertainty and absurdity of the daily American life.

My work has become an internal ritual of meaning-making through which I can accept letting go of certainty. Expressing these ideas physically through a variety of mediums is my invitation to others to join me in a sort of liminal, absurd space for connection. To anchor my conceptual process, I draw on Jacques Ranciere’s ‘The Ignorant Schoolmaster’ and Jean Baudrillard’s ‘Fatal Strategies’ to inform both the research process and use of experimental processes and techniques in my practice.

My works utilize digital, analog, and found materials as different voices or perspectives within each piece. The generational prevalence of mobile phones and social media from an early age in my life leads me to question the social implications (as well as possibilities) resulting from those technologies. This paradoxical relationship I have with the internet pushes me to meld organic material and imagery with its supposed opposite, technology and digital alteration. Their coexistence in my practice is an attempt to visualize the “between” of both political and cultural binaries I find myself engaging in as a queer woman. Mediums as voices continues throughout my decision-making when creating: I desire to create an immersive atmosphere, inviting humorous contemplation of complex situations.