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I make landscapes of loss. As a queer person and a single parent of queer and trans kids, I explore memory and loss as necessary elements of survival in this world.  I work in sculpture, photography, and film, creating a dialogue between presence and absence. 

For my piece “We walk in circles,” I am walking in circles until I make a path and inviting my community to join me in the walking. In that joining, they become authors of our shared path. Our shared path is intended to echo the way we shape the world around us. The world is exactly what we have made it, no more or less.

I make work to satisfy the lump in my throat and the constriction in my chest. I am mourning my losses and reconciling with the world as it is. I create art to make sense of my own shifting world, but also to build a space to commune with others navigating their own landscapes of loss.