I approach the knowledge of materiality and visibility through the experience of the body, viewing abstraction as an intuitive language that bridges sensory realities.
As an interdisciplinary queer artist shaped by the contrasts of a conservative religious upbringing in Utah, my work navigates the intersections of object, land, and body. Often utilizing my own body as a catalyst, my practice spans installation, sculpture, photography, printmaking, and performance. By transforming materials as extensions of the body—dough into flesh, mapped lines into strands of hair, soil into pigment—I challenge inherited ideas and societal constructs, examining the fluid relationships between the body and its material surroundings.
Often key steps in my work are collaboration and community, tying the personal to the collective. Participatory performances, donated hair, recorded conversations, and shared storytelling appear across my work as tools to foster critical discourse. By creating spaces where material experiences intersect with collective themes of intersectional feminism, rituals, and the mundane, I connect the autonomy of material and body to an amplified voice. Incorporating shared voices and lived realities, I investigate how material and conceptual interactions communicate cultural, historical, and contemporary narratives.
I’m drawn to recontextualizing theory, concept, and objects through organic and everyday materials allowing for them to become tools for interrogating cultural ties and challenging conventional narratives. Humor and familiarity open the door, while improvisation and abstraction create space for complexity—offering layered expressions of power, autonomy, and identity. These gestures remap the body as a site of critical reflection, where contradictions breathe and evolve.
As an artist, I am interested in pushing the boundaries of the body, object, and land—their presence, absence, and capacity to transform. Through the interplay of object, land, and body, I uncover the absurdities embedded in our everyday structures, inviting a deeper examination of the cultural and societal scaffolding that shapes our experiences.