As a queer artist, I have been warned often about using the term “identity” to describe what I explore in my work. This is truthfully good advice; identity is something that feels incredibly liberating and yet, when examined, becomes an inflexible framework of understanding oneself through systems that often seek to oppress.

I am interested in the limitations and delineation of identity, identifying, and identification. Through autobiographical photography, video, performance, and 16 millimeter film, I explore what identity can and cannot reflect to an audience. My practice is visually defined by sterility, physical mark making, digital disruption, and intentional obscuration to find or hide parts of my true self within the work. In doing so, I hope others can turn inwards and examine the complexities of their own lives outside of the systems that make identification so rigid.