At the beginning of the 2020 pandemic, I drove out into the Sonoran Desert and spent my time in isolation with a small group of others, living in a cave and outdoors over a period of two years. As the rest of the world became more connected to devices and digital material, my experience of nature and time deepened and lengthened, an experience only emphasized by my simultaneous gender transition. This experience with a real and embodied physical alchemy defined and made distinct my perspective, and is something I carry directly into my art practice.

Central to this practice is making objects that, while flickering between reality and unreality, are fundamentally approachable. I seek, quoting Plutarch, to create work "like images of the sun in drops of water". Whether crafting surreal objects with found common materials, or growing biomaterial saints in bacterial cultures, my radical agenda is the gentle subversion of consensus reality. I believe that glimpses of elsewhere blended with authentic points of human connection are the only way to reassert our significance in the face of the incomprehensible vastness of the universe. This exercise prioritizes connection, while offering glimpses of other worlds and other ways of being.