My work begins

with the body, most often my own, as a queer site of presence, resistance, and becoming. I approach the figure as a self-aware subject that looks back, asserts agency, and holds its own complexity. The body here is both vulnerable and insistent, shaped by lived experience and charged with emotion, memory, and desire. Through gesture, repetition, and duration, I trace how internal states surface through flesh: how pleasure softens posture, how grief tightens the spine, how endurance reshapes form over time. These moments are intimate and fleeting, yet deeply physical. I’m drawn to the tension of being seen while remaining self-possessed, where exposure becomes a form of control rather than surrender. The act of looking is central to my practice. I consider who is granted access, how intimacy is negotiated, and how the viewer’s gaze is implicated in the encounter.

My work engages with historical representations of the body while reclaiming space for lived, contemporary narratives where the body is not symbolic or idealized, but felt, intelligent, and present. By translating fleeting emotional and physical experiences into tangible form, I aim to slow perception and honor what is often overlooked: the tenderness of inhabiting oneself and the labor of survival.