My artistic practice investigates memory, ephemeral belongings, and family narratives. Memory, which is both a refuge and an unreliable source, becomes an opportunity for me to research, recover, and dislodge. Through material processes, I examine personal biometrics, the idea of home, and national myths, as well as the effects of movement and touch. Sand, plaster, clay, and performance allow me to reside in the space of residue, trace, and evidence. Sand settles under our weight. The whorls of our fingertips imprint clay. The warmth of plaster recalls the heat from our bodies after a warm day under the sun. These phenomena document and bear witness to our very being.
Working across drawing, poetics, video, sculpture, and mixed media installation, I explore adaptability as a mechanism of survival and consider other modes of persistence such as concealment, transformation, and protection. Familial legacies, migration, and the American social ethos are subjects which I pose questions or approach through allegory. My intimate and sustained investment in language—writing, speaking, and questioning—allows me to engage with storytelling and metaphor, which find expression in the objects I make. This interdisciplinary, and sometimes untranslatable, dialogue between languages, mediums, and material allows me to think through symbiotic and parasitic relationships – manifesting internally and externally in my practice.