COllections

POrtals of my flesh

A collage on a decorative gold-framed board with various images, text, and illustrations, including vintage-style photos, horror and gothic imagery, and references to cult films, sexuality, and empowerment, centered around a stylized black-and-white skull with flowers and a telephone.

  • Collage, 2025

    This work began with a question I have carried for years: can spiritual and bodily rituals serve as feminist practices of reclamation and healing? Since surviving an assault on the first day of 2020, I have lived with a fractured relationship to my own body. Memory and history are not abstract concepts - they live in my body as something dark and residual. The framework of sex magic - a spiritual practice centered on connecting with one’s body through ritual and intention - became a way to explore what it might mean to reclaim my body as a site of power rather than trauma.

    The collage functions as a visual altar, assembled from affirmations, leftover spell materials, and images gathered during research into sex magic and tantric spirituality. Each material acts as both symbol and ritual object. The process of cutting, layering, and arranging became an embodied meditation - a physical negotiation between pain and renewal.

    I’d like to mention // As my research deepened, I became aware of the complicated politics surrounding these spiritual traditions. Much of the literature on sex magic has been written by white, Western authors who borrow heavily from South Asian and tantric sources, often without full acknowledgment. This awareness transformed my work into a dual inquiry - examining not only personal healing but also the structures of appropriation and privilege that underlie many Western feminist spiritual practices.

    The piece exists in tension: a ritual of reclamation and a reflection on power. It acknowledges that the body is not a neutral space - it is inscribed by history, gender, race, and trauma. By approaching art-making as ritual, I sought to locate my experience within a larger continuum of bodies marked and remade through history.

    This marks a beginning for me. It opened a portal back to my body, my creativity, and my capacity for transformation - acknowledging that healing is not linear but an ongoing conversation between the self and the collective.

A humanoid sculpture with a luminous, elongated torso and arms, holding a stylized scalpel, against a black background. The sculpture has a cut-out in the stomach area with a glowing light behind it, framed by a red glow, and a lace-up detail extending from the chest down the abdomen.

  • Sculpture, 2025

    She has been here before, scarred and stitched into silence. Undeterred, she opens herself again. An incision becomes both wound and portal. Ribbon and needle mark what must be bound: spiritual desire, bodily intuition, divination, autonomy. Through resilience, blood, and illumination, the incision is alchemized - birthing a delicate feminine rage and transformation.

THE DIGITAL DISSECTION OF A WOMAN

  • Mixed Media Video Installation, 2025

    Women are often reduced to fragmented, consumable pieces in the cyber realm. In an age where visibility often means being dissected and scrutinized with a single click, women become spectral presences, stripped of autonomy and trapped in a digital web where their very existence is torn apart and remade by others. 

    THE DIGITAL DISSECTION OF A WOMAN is an exploration of this phenomenon, manifesting as an interactive experience where the viewer becomes complicit in the unraveling of a woman’s identity.

THE REASSEMBLY OF A WOMAN.exe

  • Mixed Media Video Installation, 2025

    This installment explores the attempt to reassemble the Woman for the viewer’s pleasure, at her expense. She resists because she was never meant to be destroyed. Situated in the tension between aesthetics and autonomy, the piece reimagines femme-coded interfaces not as playful spaces, but as sites of quiet resistance- where violence is subtle, intimate, and often imperceptible. 

    THE REASSEMBLY OF A WOMAN.exe isn’t about reconstructing her; it’s about witnessing her reclaim control.

MEN WILL SEE A MOUSE AND EAT IT

Black and white portrait of a woman with dramatic makeup wearing a striped top and a head covering, with a backdrop of vertical and horizontal lines creating a geometric pattern.

  • Life's harsh truths have indelibly etched their mark upon me. Vulnerability makes one susceptible to exploitation. I enter existence in the form of a mouse, filled with trepidation at the prospect of being devoured and torn asunder. Hopelessness gradually depletes me, ultimately giving way to a sense of disarray. I have experienced a sensation of being consumed and discarded by the relentless nature of the world.

PURITY

Silhouette of a person pressing their hands and face against a glass surface, creating a shadowed figure behind the glass.

  •  I stand bare, wearing an old devil Halloween mask - a juxtaposition of innocence and vulnerability. Girls are just a body, with muffled screams for help behind the mask and ignored by the world’s perversion of femininity. Dismissed due to distorted perceptions of what it means to be pure, and once deemed impure, the world leaves us to grapple with the unjust label of being seen as morally corrupt.

    Shot by Wolfgang Lehmkuh

A drive through the midwest

42in x 18in billboards, 2025

42in x 18in billboards, 2025

42in x 18in billboards, 2025

42in x 18in billboards, 2025

42in x 18in billboards, 2025

42in x 18in billboards, 2025

The Only Measure of Excellence is Execution

Close-up of a woman's face, with bold makeup, partially obscured by red light and grid-like reflections.
Empty courtroom with wooden walls, a white witness stand, and an exit sign above a door.
Close-up of a person's lips with bright red lipstick, slightly parted with lips wet, and blood dripping from the mouth.
A symmetrical indoor corridor with elevators on both sides and a patterned floor leading to a bright room with a chair at the end.

The Intersection of

Sexuality, God,

& Regional Identity

Silhouette of a church with tall steeple against the evening sky, two arched windows with stained glass, one showing a red light
Exterior view of a two-story house with cream-colored horizontal siding, a black awning over a door, and a tall arched window with red lighting inside.
Dark, abandoned fire escape stairs attached to brick building, rusted metal with some wear, outside at night.
Nighttime outdoor scene featuring a weathered wooden fence and a metal gate, with dark sky and faint distant lights
A boarded-up white door with a small window and a sign, set into a brick wall, with a long concrete and metal bench in front, some objects on the bench, and a dark surrounding.
Tall, dry grass along the side of a dirt road at night, illuminated by a vehicle's headlights.
Nighttime exterior of Bon Air restaurant with pink neon signs, a large round logo with a chef, an American flag, and an ATM sign, neon lights around the entrance, and various posted signs near the door.
Front of a convenience store named "Super One Stop" illuminated with blue neon lights, showing drink advertisements, a basketball hoop, and a lottery sign.
A small building with stone walls, two large dark windows, and a door in the center. The facade has a sign that reads 'TOWNSEND T.V.' in large red letters. It appears to be nighttime.
Overgrown yard with an abandoned mattress and debris inside a partially open garage.
Colorful playground slide and climbing structure in an urban outdoor area, with an old building and graffiti-covered fence in the background.
Sign on a building displaying 'Shangri-La Gentleman’s Club' in white letters on a red background.
Night view of a small motel building with a sign reading 'Sun Motel', a closed white door, and a neon sign that says 'No Vacancy' in red and green colors.
Nighttime city street with illuminated commercial signs, including a food and liquor store, pawn shop, hotel for men only, and parking sign, with pedestrians and cars in the background.
A laundromat with two front-loading washing machines and two vending machines (Pepsi) inside.