About

My practice often incorporates recognizable objects that carry cultural weight, transformed through material, size, and color, and recontextualized to reflect my lived experience and memory. These interventions disrupt normative perceptions and draw attention to topics such as religion, gender, immigration, racism, xenophobia, and healthcare. My work is not defined by a single medium because materiality is never neutral; it carries societal histories, evokes power hierarchies, and implicates the viewer.

The materials I choose are guided by the concepts I explore. The fluidity of gender expression resonates with the malleability of clay in my sculptural practice, while the stressful metamorphosis clay undergoes to become ceramic serves as a metaphor for my queer resilience in navigating patriarchal systems. Though these structures may appear permanent, like fired ceramic, they are ultimately fragile when confronted. Likewise, the performance of building a kitchen with construction materials such as lumber, often culturally coded as masculine, underscores the gendered associations embedded in both material and labor. In my installation of a hand-built kitchen, these masculine connotations stand in contrast to the socially imposed femininity of the domestic kitchen space, exposing tensions within gendered expectations.

Ultimately, my practice is a form of existence as resistance, an ongoing negotiation of visibility, erasure, and reclamation. Through shifts in material, color, and scale, I create work that insists on holding space for questioning and unlearning normative perspectives, fostering reflection, vulnerability and strength.