Artist Statement:

I am a songwriter, performer, video artist, and sculptor whose work explores the fallibility of time perception and its deep influence on the human experience. Across media, I create spaces, sounds, and images that ask audiences to reconsider how memory, presence, and visions of the future shape their emotions, relationships, and sense of self. I seek to create moments that feel less like intellectual arguments and more like invitations to feel, to reconsider, and to reconnect—with oneself, with others, and with the strange beauty of being alive.

At the heart of my practice is an interest in how our perception of time—mechanical and organic, remembered and misremembered, personal and communal—impacts our understanding of who we are. We trust our memories. We trust what we think is happening now. We trust the plans we make for the future. But that trust is inherently flawed, blown about by emotions, attachments, and loss. My work aims to gently reveal that fallibility—not to undermine it, but to offer space for compassion, openness, and catharsis.

Lyrically, my avant-pop songs unfold like personal anecdotes—rooted in the first person, vulnerable, and open-ended—so that listeners can see themselves within the stories. Rather than narrating from a distance, I write about my own misperceptions and emotional stumbles in ways that allow the audience to map their own memories onto the work. Themes of love, loss, loneliness, hope, and regret cycle through my music, offering both specificity and universality: not to instruct, but to mirror. Like ancient Greek theater, I aspire to become a mask through which my audience can experience, and ultimately release, intense human emotion.

In my performances, I use music, live-feed video, and projections to create environments where time feels stretched, compressed, and layered. Old and new technologies—VHS cameras, outdated TVs, modern projectors—collide to create landscapes that feel both nostalgic and eerily future-facing. I return to deserts, oceans, and lava flows as natural sites of the otherworldly; places where time and self attenuate and morph into the unfamiliar.  These visual landscapes envelop audiences in an uncanny present where they can momentarily lose track of what is real, what is remembered, and what is dreamed. 

To extend these dreamscapes into physical space, I create art objects with wood, mirrors, acrylic rods, plants, TVs, and projectors. Video projections fill rooms with color and light, turning ordinary architecture into dream-like territories. Plants weave through these installations, growing slowly as the technological elements flicker and hum—offering a quiet tension between organic time and mechanical time, memory and presence. By projecting videos back onto the audience themselves, I invite them not only to watch but to become part of the shifting, ephemeral world around them.

Across disciplines, accessibility remains a central value. I make work to be felt and strive to create experiences that resonate on a gut level first, inviting reflection and introspection as an extension of emotional experience. My hope is that by altering time-perception through sight and sound, I can create openings for audiences to step outside of habitual ways of thinking and feel something essential: awe, grief, hope, gratitude, connection, and love.

Ultimately, my practice is rooted in a deep belief that our fallible, subjective perceptions are what make us human. My work explores our shared experience of how easily time, memory, and presence can slip and shift. My hope is to offer a way for people to feel less alone in the complexity of being alive–to open paths of personal recalibration, to deepen our sense of self, and to strengthen our bonds to our world.