Art portfolio

As an artist, I approach painting, assemblage, and collage as a collaboration with unruly matter: pigments bloom and resist, papers buckle and tear, materials misbehave. A central concern in my work is agency—not only as a human capacity, but the ways materials, tools, and environments participate in shaping what becomes possible. I work in active relationship with these affordances and resistances, following a posthumanist, distributed sense of agency in which decisions and outcomes are negotiated among bodies, ideas, and materials. As a disabled and chronically-ill scholar and artist, my practice is interleaved with rest, pauses that allow introspection. One way disability, chronic illness, and art practice come together for me is in making collage papers then reworking them in mixed media collages. The processes I use reveal worth and desire in what could be labeled ‘flawed’ or ‘ruined’—metaphors for ways society is disabling.

Intersect
Mixed media collages

(Un)Bound
Acrylic Paintings

(In)Organic
Watercolor collage

Textile Design

Daily Collage Practice

In January 2024, I began a daily art practice that gradually shifted into a daily collage practice. As I developed my practice, I spent time exploring different approaches, leading to several series. You can explore some of these below.