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In my most recent work I have been observing urban landscapes and how they change over time. I use photo, video, and sound to document often overlooked ephemera of construction like trash, unused materials, and abandoned machinery in an effort to reveal narratives and histories of land and the people who live on it. The ubiquity of these materials makes them near universal symbols. Construction sites become liminal, serving as portals that reach beyond their physical boundaries to connect parallel narratives of placemaking and displacement. Through my documentation I hope to reframe ideas surrounding “development” and capture places in a state of transformation before they are entirely seized by forces of capital– reclaiming them through the imagination and granting infinite possibility for what they might become.


In previous work I was interested in simple functions of digital technology (like file storage or google searches) and their physical containers (like computers or TVs) and used them to ask large existential questions. Who am I? Where am I? What does it mean to be here? In my video work I used screen recordings set on my personal desktop to dig through archives of tik toks, youtube videos, memes, and photos in search of answers, much like I did as a child. With the framework of worldbuilding in mind, I layered screen/audio recordings, live video feeds, and physical tech objects in installations and performances. I aimed to distort which elements were present in realtime and which were pre-recorded in order to blur the viewers' perceptions of time and space, and to demonstrate the entanglement of the “real” world and the online.


Living as a queer Black person under capitalism and white cis-heteropatriarchy means that much of my experience is dictated by a system of power that exists in opposition to my identity. By using my art practice as an experiment in building a world that is safe to escape to, I can take control of the system of context, meaning, and value that I am usually subject to and create my own. I allow the viewer to gaze into my interior spaces with the hope that they witness my process of creating order and understanding for myself, and begin to question the boundaries of their own realities and experiences.