In my practice, I consider the downstream effects of history and how belief systems shape actions. I’m interested in how historical narratives migrate across time and geography, and how they’re weaponized or manipulated to benefit some while harming others. I examine the construction of belief, across frameworks both sacred and mundane, including religion, consumerism, family legacy, and politics. Recent work developed through cultural exchange and research in Jingdezhen, China has expanded these investigations through encounters with place, translation, labor, and material histories outside my own cultural framework.
Within this expansive inquiry, I explore the tension between dogma and lived experience, and the choices we make in embracing or rejecting our inherited legacies. These decisions ripple through generations, shaping personal identity, communal memory, and systems of power.
My research includes Holocaust literature, the male-dominated textual legacy of Judaism, and the blurred boundaries between church and state within Catholicism. I work across multiple materials and disciplines, often using light, reflection, and material deception to question what is seen, what is hidden, and how meaning is constructed.