“I’m interested in making what is familiar to us strange again: playing with tropes, clichés, and stereotypes that circulate through culture (and settle into our bodies) and interrogating their ubiquity. As a trans artist, I try to use my work to expose the flimsiness of binaries, borders, and the names we use to fix meaning. My projects engage gendered archetypes from film and popular media - the outlaw, the housewife, the martyr, the businessman, the showgirl - and examine the dynamics of dominance and submission that move through them. By queering these recognizable figures and relational patterns, I aim to disorient: to ask what it might feel like, even briefly, to undo what we think we know and to enter more unruly, honest terrain where categories blur and distinctions begin to fail.

My work is deeply informed by American culture and by the cumulative impact of over a century of media-produced images that shape our understandings of gender, desirability, power, and violence. America is a nation-state built on myth-making and false icons, and I am interested in how these monolithic images might be co-opted, repurposed, and reimagined. I am particularly drawn to archetypal masculinities and the ways they surface and burst through my own improvisational practice.”