I am an interdisciplinary artist who propels audiences out of their comfort zones by utilizing performance, glass, installation, and sound design to encourage confrontation with familiar yet difficult themes. Self-reflection and researching mediums and materials that will allow me to create the most potent product are the foundations for my processes. My goal as an artist is to reflect all the layers of humanity that create nuances and complexities that make the world and reflective art-making terrifying yet exhilarating.

The person festering with curiosity and defiance today is a long departure from the shy four-year-old who entered the performing arts world nearly twenty years ago. Performance allows me to be resistant as I insert myself into my work. I hypersexualize my frequently covered body to comment on the male gaze and explore the feeling of floating in a gender spectrum with no obvious place to situate. I use performance to critique institutional artmaking as they often foster unhealthy, competitive, perfectionistic environments that hinder creativity. Though my relationship with performance is complex, I deeply love performance because of its ephemeral nature. My work with performance serves as a reminder to myself and onlookers that you get one opportunity to live that particular moment in your life.

Glass is an attractive medium to me because of its mystery, fragility, transparency, and often temperamental and humbling nature. I utilize the permanence of glass to contrast the brevity of performances. My glass pieces reflect my experiences with debilitating obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, and avoidant restrictive food intake disorder that developed during childhood. Common motifs and images found in my glass pieces are fabrics from my childhood, references to play toys, color, and incorporating found objects. These motifs not only assist me in confronting the discomfort I feel in my body, missing the simplicity of childhood, and fears about the inevitability of aging but are universally nostalgic to assist audience members in confronting their discomfort and fear.

My installations and sound designs are where the senses are activated, atmospheres are created, and the unexplainable can be felt. With sensitivity to loud noises, I design purposefully loud and disturbing compositions to reflect emotions that always live in spaces with us but are nonphysical. My installations and sound designs feature manipulated self-recorded content that ease audiences in with familiar sounds but are layered with increasingly loud industrial or insect sounds to simulate losing control.

I make art to plunge into the depths of what’s real. The common thread found in my work with performance, glass, installation, and sound is discussing mental and bodily discomfort. I examine, accentuate, and confront familiar yet difficult themes because I believe it’s important to be honest. I am an interdisciplinary artist because I need to reflect upon my experiences and learn about materials that present my experiences most honestly. Being multifaceted allows me to explore what it means to be alive: the beauty, the unsavory, and the evolution.