STATEMENT OF WORK

I’m interested in what it means to be from somewhere, or needing to know where one is from, and the inter- and inner- states of belonging. And I’m interested in how belonging points to an origin of longing.

Working across lens-based media, painting, sculpture, installation, and creative writing, my. practice explores themes of exile and migration, place as home, the personal as political, and the roles of grief & storytelling in the process of belonging. The work often takes a form of expanded cinema in which experimental films are projected onto minimalist architectural structures and sculptures, animating materials with vignettes that blur lines between video art, poetic documentary, and filmic abstraction. It’s a fitting form for contemplations of belonging, where narrative elements literally shift across boundaries and merge with place. Meanwhile, recent explorations integrate lighting with rope suspension and found-object sculptures focused on forms of restriction and trespass. The peculiar names and utility of specific knots allow for layered linguistic and physical metaphors, from binding to search & rescue functions and poetic names for joining separate lines together. Across all the work, materials suggesting boundaries, overgrowth, and survival take on an ethereal glow, with elements of illumination suggesting both elucidation and resistance.