For some time since the event of a car careening into and crushing my body, I have had a special affinity for traffic cones. As […]
Compass : A Homing Statement
This is the philosophy that orients me with/in my process: Through photography, installation, performance, and intervention, I aim to challenge stigma. Stigma is a fear […]
Reflections from the Margins
Phantom Personhood Pain I don’t hate doctors. I hate the sick system. It’s EPIC, factive and immutable diagnoses that are the “us/them” sick/well. It’s a […]
Chafing Rooms
There really is no way to sit. To *settle.* Chafing Rooms evokes the cultural conception of wellness, how we perform as patients, and how spaces […]
A Drift
In camerawork I explore ideas of motion and stillness in photography and in life. A camera is said to capture, or freeze an action in […]
Pity and Other Superpowers
Once, in a hospital, a tech said to me, “If you throw a pity party, nobody comes.”
Many Hats
Here is your “pee hat,” she said. They would measure my “I’s and O’s.” The In’s and Out’s, what comes out as urine. The collection […]
Ahh, Wellness
You’ve got to start somewhere… Throughout my studies I’ve found, and myself created, creative work on pain, suffering and illness. I have since challenged myself to […]
Beware, Liquidy
Recently a dear family member was diagnosed with a cognitive decline, early stage dementia. I grieve, but try to be curious. I watch as his […]
Pinhole Dialogue with the Dead
This is a portal to an assailant’s afterlife attained through a pin-pricked peep hole. I had been going armed with my pinhole camera, homemade of […]