As we keep you safe
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Incarnations, nameless, ruined. Discerning, civil, aware. Disrupt, circling, ancient.
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2025
Cotton fabric with UV-reactive treatment, polyester fabric, rock and glass embellishment
25” x 30”
What do I want to say to my younger self? I guess I’m mostly just proud of you for making it through. In hindsight, looking back from this place of stability and relative contentment, the hole in my life that I was trying to fill seems so much larger, the background sadness that I felt for maybe 20 years seems so much larger. You did what you had to do to survive that, and you weren’t always a great person because of it, and you are forgiven for that. I forgive you, and I love you. You vastly overestimate your own selfishness, because you’re so consumed by that sadness, that loneliness, that it feels like you only ever think about yourself, but you are thoughtful and considerate and you are a good friend. People are lucky and grateful to have you in their lives.
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Gender, Vestis
2025
Still documentation by @klediastudios video by @serenagabrielsart
Thanks to @mobiusinc and particularly @deadorchards and @zoemeifleur
This work is about being transgender, if that isn’t clear.
The grass beneath everything I had forgotten
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Ավերված քաղաքը իմ արտացոլանքն է
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Cotton fabric, UV reactive chemical on cotton fabric, silver bells, walnut shells, Italian onyx
2025
Cloud to cloud, rock to rock
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I jumped and landed outside of what I always thought I knew.
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2025
UV reactive chemicals on cotton fabric, semi-precious stones, glass beads
13” x 8”
Samantha and I in Milwaukee, WI.
Please join us for an evening of performance art in Cambridge in one week! Sliding scale tickets and no one turned away for lack of funds.
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November 14 6 - 9 PM
@cambridgefoundry
Thank you @zoemeifleur
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Polaroid from @a_copp and @connerofohio in a pose derived from suggestions by @chrisdiani .
The lamp in the corner of the room I once slept in
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To miss what never existed. This piece is a necklace, a catcall, a cigarette among friends.
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2025
UV-reactive chemicals on cotton fabric, cotton fabric, Onyx beads, MOP beads
Approximately 9” x 13”
The bottom of your boot, held tightly
2025
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it has been so much fun to work on these anthropomorphic (at least to me) quilts. My mom told me about her bumping into my childhood quilting mentor a few weeks ago and how they were unsurprised I have continued to experiment and grow in the material. Here’s to the next chapter!
Through Shifting Lenses, SMFA MFA ‘25 Thesis Exhibition, is open from now til May 18 @tuftsartgalleries
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Reception will be held May 16 from 5 - 8 PM in the Aidekman Arts Center at Tufts University. Join me at the reception and for my performance this Sunday, May 11 2-4 PM (link in bio). Looking forward to celebrating me and my cohort’s graduation with you!
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Photo with The bottom of your boot, held tightly by @caitlinlent
Message To My Mother
Like many other projects, this one emerged as I took the time to think about a relationship with someone I love. At times it feels like her breast cancer is a third presence interfering with mother-child, impacting the way we interact over the last decade. As I consider my own place in the world of breast health care, I think about reimagining the objects and words associated with the pamphlets, demonstrations, and physical spaces there. I made this work to give myself another reason to talk to my mom about breast cancer and gender. It has been uncomfortable and revealing, but it has reminded me that if I spend too much time in my own head I will miss out on what is going on in the mind of the woman in the other head-hole ;-)
2024-ongoing
Bra inserts, glass beads, cotton fabric, polyester stuffing, dye
