Artist Statement
I'm an artist drawn to the messiness of the in-between—where human meets non-human, wild meets domesticated, and where beauty and decay blur together. Those gray areas both excite and unnerve me, and that tension runs through everything I make.
I work across performance, theatre, music, visual art, farming, and herbalism, often moving intuitively between forms. My practice is shaped by collage—not just as a visual medium, but as a way of working: bringing unlikely elements into conversation and trusting that meaning can emerge through proximity, overlap, and surprise. Whether I'm assembling images on paper or on stage, bringing a character to life in front of an audience, writing love songs for lost animals, or making salve from herbs in the garden, I'm interested in revealing the strange, raw, and tender experience of being alive on this planet right now.
My work invites audiences into close, charged encounters—spaces that are intimate, emotionally risky, and often uncanny. I'm interested in what it means to stay awake—present, unflinching, and grounded—even when the world pushes us to numb out or look away. I'm especially drawn to presence, subtlety, and ambiguity, and to creating experiences that resist easy answers in a culture too often dominated by certainty.
Through collaborative, research-driven processes, I create what I call "threshold dramaturgy"—performances where Renaissance text might sit next to contemporary speech, where i’m both myself and the character, where bodies meet digital mediation. These are portals where intimacy and spectacle collapse into each other, and where the ordinary can become mythic.
Ultimately, I hope the work offers a place to pause, to question, to feel something shift—and, hopefully, to emerge a little bit wilder.