I am an artist, archivist, and writer from Tennessee. I currently live in Los Angeles, California. I studied visual art at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (2012) and then at The University of Chicago (2015).

Artmaking, for me, is a process of bearing witness to every day with empathy and vulnerability and then embedding that experience in the material world as if to put a message in a bottle for someone across the water that I will never meet. I make images and objects from an increasingly personal place informed by finding a quiet sublime in my daily life. I work across disciplines including drawing, sculpture, installation, video, and digital archives.

To support my life as an artist I work professionally as an archivist. I see my working life as deeply intertwined with my art-making — giving the act of documentation a particularly devotional seat in my life.

In 2021 I started a digital zine titled, Momma. Momma is a collaborative effort between myself and artists in my life who I invite to explore their art practices through repeated conversations about what it means to be a creator. Momma is anchored in viewing every artist’s work as a holistic universe — respecting and exploring one another’s logic with empathy and curiosity. Momma is about recognizing each other on common terms and in plain speech.

Momma’s name is cast around these conversations hoping to expand how we define acts of generation, nurturing, and unconditional love. For my part, it is made in homage to my mother, a gifted listener, and storyteller. It's about the vulnerability of being together, giving and receiving care. Momma is made to further develop the meaning of shelter in my own life. The project pushes me to view care, partnership, motherhood, childlessness, love, creation, and giving through a genderless lens.