As a contemporary artist, I make work that speaks to this moment in time and presents new perspectives. I use metal & fiber techniques as a language to speak about complex human issues through embodied experiences paired with conceptual thinking.
My most recent work, completed in 2020, engages with concepts of epigenetics, ancestral memory, inherited trauma, and historic assimilation to the construct of whiteness - threading their way from one work to the next. Bloodline establishes a foundation in understanding epigenetics and the collective weight of unresolved trauma on an entire lineage. Unweaving seeks to resolve a secret family story in my own lineage while also creating physical and conceptual space for others to consider the idea of unweaving our stories from a broader white supremacist system. Past Present presents a more urgent message about the cycle of time and how white culture has held us in a veiled state of individualism, disconnection, and oblivion that prevents us from joining a truly equitable future.