The core of my creative practice is making as a form of research. Working across drawing, watercolor, sewing, textiles, metalsmithing, bookbinding, letterpress, and cyanotype, I use material processes to investigate how stories are held, obscured, and transmitted through bodies, landscapes, objects, and the built environment. My interdisciplinary background in cultural studies, architecture, urban planning, material culture, and pedagogy informs this work, but the foundation of my practice is embodied and material. I make to see, to nurture curiosity, and to ask questions. 

I approach materials and places as physical and cultural texts. Landscapes, buildings, fabrics, and bodies carry layered histories that shape meaning and experience whether or not those histories are immediately visible. Through close attention to the physical properties and socio-cultural histories of materials, I ask how value is assigned, what is considered precious or disposable, and what kinds of stories become legible or remain hidden.

My recent work explores loss, grief, home, and the archives of our lives. I am interested in how spatial representations like maps, architectural plans, and evocations of landscape can help us understand the self, family, and society through spatial and temporal expression. Home, in this work, is not only a geographic location but also a psychological anchor: a site of memory, longing, inheritance, and rupture.

I often work in series, using repetition, slight variation, layering, stitching, and delamination to create nonlinear narratives. These works use cartography and topography as forms of conceptual notation, treating the ground as a thick sediment of information. Texture, voids, fragments, and partly revealed underlayers invite viewers to move through the work slowly, assembling meaning across pieces rather than receiving a single fixed account.

Material offers ways to archive, communicate, repair, and exercise embodied knowledge. Using material study as the core process of my art and scholarship has allowed me to mark time, discover connections, register care, and make visible the fragile threads between place, memory, body, and loss.