Artist Statement

My practice is a documentation of Queer history that uplifts the subjectivity and peculiarity of oral histories. Archives of Trans and Queer history have systematically been repressed or destroyed, leaving only a small source of footage, journals, and memorabilia for people to study. This is made even smaller for those without access to academic data banks or the ability to travel to historical sites. Oral histories fill in the blanks with vibrance, grit, emotion, and fantasy, adding a depth of feeling that makes embellishments seem more real than the truth. My work amplifies urban legends, gossip, and the fantastically skewed personal narratives of Trans and Queer interviewees through sculpture, paintings, and word art. 

Figurative portraits of people, buildings, and contextually Queer everyday objects are created on site in distorted perspectives and pastels palettes to accentuate the dreamlike quality of memory. I work with found industrial materials and textile scraps that are site specific. Sourcing from focal cities reflects the unique social and economic histories that are innately tied to the Queerness of a place. Combining forms built from local material with words from interviews, jokes, slurs, and my own journaling, I am building a modern Queer archive in an effort to preserve the past while building new visions of a Trans and Queer future.