What happens when we slow down enough to notice what's holding us together—or falling apart?
My practice lives in the close range: what is close to the body and hyperlocal. This icludes the perceptual and relational terrain between people, land, and the overlooked infrastructures of daily life. Through gatherings, workshops, and small acts of collective noticing, I explore how meaning surfaces through shared attunement rather than finished objects.
I think of this as an act of tending, though honestly it's more like asking: what if we all just... looked closer? What stories live in thumbprints, grass, the gap between intention and impact?
I'm pursuing an MFA in Art + Social Practice at Portland State University, deepening my research into how art can cultivate connection, care, and new ways of fumbling toward being together.
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What happens when we create a space from earth itself? Do natural materials invite us to linger differently?
Take a seat...
Cast from cow dung and set in a rotating garden, these ceramic vessel holds what I can no longer carry. Can the shards of pain decompose and shape-shift? Does shit really become fertilizer?
Uncover…
What if I built frames for a forest that's been curating its own exhibition all along?
Take a peek
Who has the right to exist in public spaces? Taking cues from pigeons, participants practiced deliberate lingering in commercial spaces without consuming.
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A two-room installation exploring what we might recover when we refuse the logics of productivity and relearn how to pay attention.
Step in…
What opens when we attend to what's usually ignored? What happens when we treat the mundane as if it has an inner life?
Come study…
How do you listen in a foreign land? How do you make yourself receptive to what you don't yet understand?
Listen on…
I couldn't escape the truth that I didn't belong there.
Can materials connect me to place?
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