As a visual artist-anthropologist, I am interested in both creating and investigating artwork that demonstrates the breadth of human activity and experience, asking what an image actually knows, how creative practice shapes the environments we inhabit, and why the artist's lived experience is central to uncovering meaning. For me, the image is an artifact: it holds memory, elicits memory, and is embodied by the relationships that helped form it.

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This is the work my practice is built around: moving across photo-weaving, collage, abstract drawing, and archival research to handle images the way an anthropologist handles artifacts, with curiosity, care, and a willingness to be changed by what they reveal. At the center of all of it is a process of fragmentation and reconstruction. In my photo-weavings, I physically cut and interlace photographs to create works that exist between archive and abstraction, honoring the documentary force of an image while releasing it into something more contemplative and open. My collage work draws on archival materials, found print media, and personal photographs, layering sources across time to explore how identity is negotiated through cultural memory and collective history. My abstract drawings, developed through freehand mark-making and repetitive gesture, surface hidden faces, symbols, and networks of connection that visualize the interpersonal and emotional structures shaping how we know ourselves and one another.

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This commitment to process as meaning-making extends to my curatorial work. Untethered: The Space Between Being and Abstraction (Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philadelphia, 2026), my debut curatorial project, brought together four artists working across collage, painting, textiles, and installation to explore abstraction as a condition rather than a style, a space where creative intuition leads before resolution follows. Across all of these forms, my practice asks what it means to hold history carefully, to follow an image where it wants to go, and to find in the act of making a deeper understanding of what connects us.