I am a 22 year old interdisciplinary artist, programmer and student at the University of Rochester. My work highlights how masculinity and femininity interact with one another. I work primarily with queer people, often close friends or family members. In my work, I illuminate qualities of my subjects’ queerness that I hope to embody in myself.
I enjoy working most with natural light. I often use focused light from a window or shadows from foliage to emphasize or cut across a particular gesture from my subject. As the light changes throughout the day, I reposition my subjects, moving in concert with the light.
Although I mainly work in photography, I draw inspiration from printmaking and painting. I see my paintings and prints as distorted versions of my photographs. I will use a digitally altered image as a reference, and use the physical nature of paint, ink, and fabric to pull, stretch, and tear apart a portrait.
I’m constantly inspired by queer people’s resilient and creative ways of being in this world. With my art, I hope to imagine queerness as central and sacred, as natural and eternal.