I work across media, gathering still and moving images, documents, objects, sound, and oral narratives. These archival elements are transformed by my creative process through layering, sequencing, juxtaposition, manipulating materiality, and adding text.

This transformation results in monuments of duality: objects, images, and time-based media that combine past and present, nature and artifice, joy and grief, memory and recorded history, evidence and critique.

A river runs from its present in one place to its future in another, gradually and meticulously shaping its surroundings along the way. In its constant flow of water and dynamic change, time collapses. Past, present, and future exist simultaneously.

The mothers in my family are also rivers—recorders and keepers of recipes, stories, photographs, documents, and traditions. Through their guidance, I have learned that events of the past simultaneously shape our present and future. Looking back is equally important to my practice as looking forward. Accepting this role as past keeper, present shaper, and future builder comes with responsibilities. The stories of the past are a gift. They hold knowledge, wisdom, complexity and mystery.  It is my task to hold them, to keep them, to distill their lessons, to foster healing, to apply their wisdom in my own life, and to pass them on, intact and with annotation.