I am a sculptor working in time and lens-based mediums. I build with images and create stories, generating pictures, videos, slide shows, live cinema, and performance. My process begins with fieldwork: I work outdoors, researching historical locations and collecting material in situ. My studio is a processing headquarters for raw material. As an observer and archivist, I write, scan, use clay, and choreograph performers to manifest embellished memories, developing a narrative think-feel experience. I have been deaf since childhood. I’m drawn thematically to ways sound can be a metaphorical tool in the exploration of landscape and place. I combine documentation and semi-fictive writing to develop experimental narratives for my images, focusing on ways of representing sound and sonic experience visually. The limitations of verbal language interest me as a problem, revealing the poignant abstraction of non-verbal language: the way we can think, feel and understand matter physically, through our bodies.

I received my BA from Reed College in Portland, OR and my MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. My work has been presented in galleries and film festivals including Emerson Dorsch Gallery (Miami, FL), Pierogi Boiler (Brooklyn, NY), Reynolds Gallery (Richmond, VA), Finger Lakes Film Festival (Ithaca, NY), The Façade Film Festival (Plovdiv, Bulgaria), and Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, (Marl, Germany). I’ve been awarded grants such as the Toby Devon Lewis Scholarship, and the John Ringling Towers Grant, participated in residencies such as the Hermitage Artist Retreat, 7 Below Arts initiative, and Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. 

In 2015 I founded P/H/A/O/N, a presentation space for time-based art in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Between 2016 and 2022 I shifted my focus from the studio and from teaching sculpture to raise my children. I am based in the Hudson Valley.