I am a visual artist working in immersive installation, video game design, and performative action. My work is a self-reflective investigation into nonbinary embodiment, emotional resilience, and interpersonal connections. I am interested in structures of power within domestic environments, and how binaries within the home mirror later relationships to institutionalized authority. My work challenges normative power structures through playfully interjecting moments of queer world building. 

Drawing upon personal archives, I craft psychologically charged physical and virtual environments that lie somewhere between memory and dreamscape. Often the work begins with a nostalgic remnant of childhood such as a game or toy. When I revisit these objects, compulsions emerge like, “Lock me inside a tube-TV filled with green Jell-O.” Driven by these points of fascination, I combine sculptural methods such as body casting with techniques borrowed from theatrical design and home construction to create large-scale physical manifestations of complex emotional states and memories. The end result are wholly interactive spaces that blur the distinction between archival collection and theatrical set. 

Interactivity and play are my primary modes of engagement with the viewer and video games are a natural progression of that modality. In a video game, the player character becomes an extension of the viewer, no matter how different they are from the protagonist. The viewer develops a personal relationship to the narrative through direct engagement with the world, promoting a more vulnerable and empathic form of viewership.