Collages
Mixed media pieces blending past and future through layered storytelling and material exploration
When the Body Remembers What the Mind Cannot
When chronic pain consumed my body in 2020, creativity became a foreign language I could no longer speak. For years, chronic pain made all familiar forms of expression completely inaccessible— my body yearning for creation while simultaneously rejecting every attempt to reach toward it.
Yet in this void, an alternative practice emerged: collaging. When I couldn't pick up anything else, collaging became my only means to document what I was experiencing when everything else had shut down. In my state of bodily and spritiual pain, collaging allowed me to create outside of time.
Collage Collections
Critical Conversations for Transformation
Multilingual collages incorporating text in indigenous languages alongside programming code, exploring communication across cultures and technologies.
Atlas of the Body
Piecing together cultural memories through layered materials, photographs, and traditional elements. Each collage reconstructs stories that bridge generations.
In many of these pieces, I exist outside of my body and thus outside of time—watching, watching, watching, and sometimes remembering to breathe before diving back up for air. Every collage was almost always completed in one sitting, until again, I could come up for air, having finally captured the image I was seeing in this realm, trying to process the world I was living in versus the world I yearned to see built.
— On surviving through making, 2020-2025An Introduction to the Monster in all of uS
Excavating meaning from discarded technology, weaving circuit boards with traditional textiles to explore the relationship between old and new.
Rage
A visceral exploration of American anger, layering political imagery, classical art, and media fragments to examine how rage functions as both destructive force and catalyst for change in contemporary society.