I am a hunter, a storyteller, a presence, a seer. I've been this way for as long I can remember. A full-time working artist in Austin, I work with ideas of inherited memory, material degradation, temporal engagement and mourning patterns in my work. The cosmology that people recognize in my projects come from a dark cinematic world of interiors, both architectural and spiritual, and most undoubtedly, a projection of my own consciousness—fierce, complicated and full of possibility. As a strong woman who has forged her own path and the child of an immigrant, I feel strongly about the fluidity of ownership and the collective memory of trauma. My cross-disciplinary practice uses video, sculpture, installation, staged photographs and performance. I have recently come to realize two things: One, that sharing my works is a process of healing; and two, that all the projects I make are about revealing hidden layers of history, both in my own ancestry and in the world at large. The latest works are personal and conceptual responses to questions of ritual, ruin, history and cultural relevance, using my own family history as a springboard while examining my feminine identity as a leader and redefining my artistic role in times of upheaval and change. The work tends to gather complexity the more time is spent with it encouraging interaction and asking the viewers to use their own metaphysical lenses. The works you will see here on the registry are unapologetically aesthetic, mythic and conceptual responses to questions of mortality and transformation using a cosmic, complex and somewhat occult approach.

Cinematic and mannerist in its appearance, all of the projects I work on gather complexity the more time is spent with them. Notable recent projects include: Curating and participating in a group exhibition at Big Medium Gallery called Sanctum about inherited memory, including my newest video TMI; Collaborating on a two person show with Kate Csillagi at our ICOSA Collective gallery in Austin about boundaries and parallel realities; And exhibiting a three-channel video installation H A I N T after a five year process that premiered at the Visual Arts Center at UT Austin in January 2019 and won the International Istanbul Experimental Film Festival. My recent video projects H A I N T and TMI both examine the residue of aftermath, from conflict to neglect. This exploration is echoed in my sculptural works such as LST VSSLZ and Yggdrasil with installations that ponder ruin and escape. I use these questions to push both myself and the work into uncomfortable explorations of power, healing and collective memory. For my current series of films and work, I am researching the concept of genetic memory, that we inherit more than DNA from our ancestors and carry the habits, failures, pain, joy and actions of those that came before us. I want to know where the boundaries of cultural interaction lie within these parameters of memory. Art continues to give me the foundation that my given life did not and this is the cure for a fervent imagination, marginalized visions, shadows and the inheritance for our cultural bedrock. We build our visions from opportunities that give a platform to the complex conversations in contemporary art.