I am a Los Angeles–area artist working across media and disciplines that include experimental film and video, social practice, ceramics, and cyanotype.

I create works that seek to foster connection—among people and between people and the ecologies we are part of. Through my work, I invite people to re-see and reconsider familiar places, narratives, and structures through creating oblique portraits of everyday spaces, phenomena, and people, using abstraction as a way to invite critical engagement. My practice is historically informed, deeply tied to place, and rooted in observation and documentation, particularly of so-called “natural” landscapes in the Los Angeles area. I examine the everyday, the mundane, exploring ways in which official and unexamined narratives impact our environment, our experiences, and our interactions. I approach many of my projects as collaborations with places, material properties, natural and chemical processes, and elements of chance that arise from all of these. Intention and discovery are equally important to my process.

In my varied works, I play with material, texture, traces, and movement and am interested in ways people understand and interact with nature. My preoccupations include family, memory, gender, land, texture, color, and place. I am drawn to places where structures and materials break down.

My experimental film and video work verges on documentary and spans a wide range—from essay film to stopmotion collage to impressionist portraiture. My works have screened at festivals and venues internationally including the Black Maria Film + Video Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Videoex Experimental Film & Video Festival, Experiments in Cinema, Los Angeles Filmforum, and the Portland Underground Film Festival.

My work in clay highlights sculptural forms and delicate colors, shapes, and textures of desert landscapes and geothermal regions of the western and southwestern U.S. My cyanotypes are on the one hand documents, records of experiments and conditions, but they are also ethereal traces of light and chemistry that point beyond the corporeal.

I have an MFA in Science & Natural History Filmmaking from Montana State University in Bozeman.