Beneath the Surface - 2023
A response to Il fault laver son linge sale en famille (to refrain from airing your dirty laundry in public), derived from a French proverb first translated to English during the 1800s.
Malleable fabric with loose threads attached to rope that is wrapped around a tree mirror my inner feelings battling neuromuscular disease, while relating back to a simpler way of living to demonstrate the external effects of physical disease and the need for therapies from infancy to prosper — the cost of medical care and the financial impact it has on families. Such representation, too, speaks to the uncertainty and fragility of life, the search for structure, and as a result, the need to hang everything that troubles me on clothesline, to air the laundry of my invisible disease, so that I can be seen.
Beneath the Surface - 2022
A self-portrait film that enables the viewer to question societal preconceived notions of what physical disease looks like to them, while using the movement and form of nature’s winter to reflect symptoms that are not as obvious to an untrained eye.
The War on Spring Street
My grandmother, now 87 years old, steps into the mind of herself as a young child and walks the viewer through a frightening event that occurred one night during World War II.