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 that word, belonging, breaks down into an ontology of longing. Through an interdisciplinary practice using methods of filmmaking, sculpture, photography, and installation, my work often takes a form of expanded cinema in which experimental films are projected onto installation structures referencing domestic architecture. It’s a strange and unwieldy format, quite seductive and seemingly novel to an impatient eye, but it’s a fitting form for my ideas in which the literal elements of narrative (time, language, and location) animate and link to the places they touch. Boundaries are crossed and merged. 

Alongside paintings, small assemblages, and conceptual projects, these works draw on lived experiences to tell intimate stories framed by broader socio-political and relational concerns. Raised as a child of immigrants, I will often address themes such as migration & assimilation, class mobility, identity as linked to place, and home as linked to paperwork. It is a return to the tenet that the personal is political. But of course, the personal is also simply personal, which is to say, it is the stuff of being human. So, the work also contains those things: intimacy, family, love, loss & grief, explorations of time and the nature(s) of self.