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“Like the dead- seeming cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me.” ~ Zora Neale Hurston

My work explores embodiment, temporal permeability, transition, ritual, and the lingering effects of emotional, environmental, and economic extraction on both people and land. Working across photography, textiles, sound, performance, video, found materials, and immersive installation, I create sensory-based environments that investigate how memory is carried physiologically, materially, and spatially across generations.

At the center of my practice is a fascination with interiority—both physical and psychological. Through sensory and spatial exploration, I examine the ways memory lives within the body, moves across time, and shapes our relationship to ourselves, one another, and the landscapes we inhabit. My work often begins with a desire to understand what cannot be easily seen: inherited stories, emotional residue, ancestral knowledge, grief, longing, and the subtle traces left behind by experience.

I am drawn to thresholds, liminal spaces, and moments of transition. Time in my work is rarely linear. Instead, I approach it as porous and permeable—a space where past, present, and future coexist. Through immersive installations and interdisciplinary projects, I create opportunities for memory, imagination, and lived experience to overlap, inviting viewers into altered relationships with time, place, and perception.

Each medium functions as its own language. Working across photography, fibers, video, performance, installation, painting, and mixed media allows ideas to evolve in the form they require. Projects often unfold over many years, with materials carrying their own histories from one body of work into another. Ashes from a fire, handwritten notes, soil, hair, textiles, found objects, and remnants of previous works frequently reappear, creating a living archive where memory is not preserved but continually transformed.

My practice is rooted in cyclical processes, material reuse, and ecological reciprocity. I approach the studio as an ecosystem rather than a production site—one centered on attentiveness, repair, rhythm, slowness, nervous system restoration, and relationship. Through sensory experiences that may include sound, texture, scent, touch, and spatial intervention, I create environments that encourage sustained attention and deeper connection.

Lineage remains a guiding force throughout my work. My grandfather, an interdisciplinary artist himself, left an indelible imprint on my creative life. The ink of my mother's pen, the stitches of my grandmother's needle, the patchwork legacy of my great-grandmother's quilting, and the herbal knowledge passed through generations all reverberate through my practice. These inheritances—both known and unknown—surface as materials, visions, gestures, dreams, intuitions, and memories that continue to shape the work.

Ultimately, I am interested in creating spaces where the visible and invisible converge; where memory can be encountered as something living, palpable, tangible, and in motion. Through immersive, sensory experiences, I seek to make space for reflection, connection, healing, and transformation while honoring the complex relationships between body, land, ancestry, and time.