Artist Statement

I am a new media artist working across sculpture, installation, video, painting, and custom software. I am drawn to moments when the body becomes extrapolated: translated into image, reflected back through a screen, captured as data, or made strange by systems that promise access but produce distance.

I am skeptical of modern technology’s promises of transparency and disembodied consciousness. These systems often treat the body as something that can be converted into information, as if making something visible also makes it knowable. I return instead to the boundary between inside and outside, asking what can actually be seen, reached, or understood across it. Through transparency, enclosure, and simulation, I create situations where seeing something more clearly can make it feel less knowable.

Recently, my practice has turned inward, using my own body, desire, vulnerability, and interior life as material. Eroticism has entered the work as a force that can wound, expose, and transform. These newer works ask what happens when the wish to be seen meets the impulse to hide, and when connection promises union but also threatens dissolution.

I make work because I am interested in contradictions that cannot be resolved. Transparency can reveal or expose; a cage can protect or imprison; desire can transform or destroy. Material experimentation lets me stay with these ambiguities rather than explain them away. The finished works do not report what I already know; they become objects I interpret in order to understand what I could not yet say.