Radical empathy and acceptance toward all bodies. My experience as a queer woman struggling to feel embraced, coupled with my academic interests in art, gender, and sexuality studies, provide me with an intersectional lens for approaching my creative practice and inspire me to make art with a positive global impact. Fashion serves as the ultimate convergence of my interests. Through fabric, we render our bodies into sites where both gender constraints and empowerment manifest materially. 

My artistic practice merges fashion with sculpture, collage, and performance to express frustration at oppressive heteronormativity and joy at the erotic power of refusing to conform. Found materials meld to ensure the environmental sustainability of my feminist approach. I strip discarded furniture and garments down to their skeletons to mend, rebuild, and heal them, mirroring the act of undressing a redressing through which clothing creates countless new iterations of the self. By making work intended to be touched, my viewers transform into performers as figures, patterns, and textures intersect, confront, and highlight one another. As a result, I investigate how people embody the fabric of their environments and how clothing, as an external expression, impacts individuals’ internal attitude and sense of belonging in the world.