As an anti-disciplinary artist, I primarily engage with a sculptural practice that intersects with sonic performance, land installation, and expanded cinema. My work examines the im/possibility of the Black body and its entanglements with photographic optics. These explorations coincide with a bubbling interest in the fugitive state or the fugitivity within Black subjecthood. Drawing from queer rave culture and carnival practices throughout the West, I employ a satirical means to interrogate systems of hypervisibility and invisibility through the use of masquerade and spectacle.
Central to my practice is the concept of 'Destierro,' a Spanish term most akin to being "torn from the land." This primarily speaks to the feeling of belonging as it relates to environmental catastrophes or other causes of displacement, specifically to Black and Queer communities. My process has evolved from primarily digital, site-specific, and performative to more installation and object-based. Stretching from an ongoing archival gesture of documenting and scanning dancefloors after nights of transportive dancing, large-scale mark-making, drone usage, and animation to improvisational sound performance, lighting systems, and a devoted metalworking practice. I place no limits on the tools I employ, as they all serve to generate a sense of belonging to the "Blur," a space that reflects both the fugitive state of blackness and a perpetually transforming materiality.