Artwork
Grafts
Listening Technology
Spells for Protection
Gathering
Mother Bayou
For Seeing Neither Here nor Elsewhere
Can you hear me now?
Tarot Deck [in progress]
Echoes of the Witch
Water Moves
For Release
Quantum Conversations
The Parting Gift
Smells for Protection
What the Stone Saw
Ritual Bridge
In Bloom
Stilled Chimera
Sourcing the Sacred
As Above, So Below
Rock Hard
You excite me the way your gaze touches my body
I fell for you
Desiring Sterilizing Desiring
The world is mysterious and enchanted. As a research-based artist, my work is rooted in creative, scholarly, and spiritual inquiry. I have spent the last decade cultivating and exploring different ways of seeing in an effort to perceive other worlds and connect with the numinous. I am deeply curious about the entanglements between magic, ecology, and the Imagination. In my work, the Imagination is an instrument of cognition and world-building. It is a spiritual tool, a form of altered consciousness, and a creative magical act that empowers us to experience the imaginal realm. Most importantly, it is a way of knowing. My work attempts to wade into—and learn from—the imaginal realm through the practice of going deep inside to reach beyond.
What we perceive—through our physical and spiritual senses—shapes how we understand and navigate our world. Since experiencing a total solar eclipse in 2017, my work has orbited around the idea of lenses and apertures as ocular portals. It is inspired by the knowledge that in the same historical moment, some gazed into crystal balls to glimpse the future, others looked through telescope lenses to observe light emerging from the past, and others still peered through tiny glass balls in early microscopes to reveal an unseen world of microbes for the first time. More recently, my focus has flowed to water. Informed by the folklore of my childhood, my work is presently delving into the deep ecology of sacred springs and bayous, inclusive of the myriad mythological, microscopic, and other invisible beings who animate these spaces.
Taking form primarily through sculpture, photography, and ritual, I ground my work in rigorous material research and a considered sense of craft. My making practice is often a playful form of mediumship, in which materials act as conduits or channels to bring the immaterial into perception. Materials are active and essential collaborators in this process. From flowers and fungi, to minerals, spirits, and subatomic particles, I work with materials who have their own agency, but are also encoded with human histories and connotations. Like ingredients in a potion, each material builds layers of meaning in the work, coming together to transmute into something new. These new images and objects then come full circle, creating physical points of departure that lead into the imaginal field.
What we perceive—through our physical and spiritual senses—shapes how we understand and navigate our world. Since experiencing a total solar eclipse in 2017, my work has orbited around the idea of lenses and apertures as ocular portals. It is inspired by the knowledge that in the same historical moment, some gazed into crystal balls to glimpse the future, others looked through telescope lenses to observe light emerging from the past, and others still peered through tiny glass balls in early microscopes to reveal an unseen world of microbes for the first time. More recently, my focus has flowed to water. Informed by the folklore of my childhood, my work is presently delving into the deep ecology of sacred springs and bayous, inclusive of the myriad mythological, microscopic, and other invisible beings who animate these spaces.
Taking form primarily through sculpture, photography, and ritual, I ground my work in rigorous material research and a considered sense of craft. My making practice is often a playful form of mediumship, in which materials act as conduits or channels to bring the immaterial into perception. Materials are active and essential collaborators in this process. From flowers and fungi, to minerals, spirits, and subatomic particles, I work with materials who have their own agency, but are also encoded with human histories and connotations. Like ingredients in a potion, each material builds layers of meaning in the work, coming together to transmute into something new. These new images and objects then come full circle, creating physical points of departure that lead into the imaginal field.