My work explores the ways identity, memory, place, and cultural inheritance are carried through images, objects, landscapes, and everyday acts of making. Working across mixed media, photography, visual journaling, and arts-based research, I am interested in how personal and collective histories are preserved, altered, obscured, or recovered over time.

My practice is shaped by my background in fine arts, visual ethnography, anthropology, and women and gender studies. I often begin with research—archival material, family histories, cultural objects, field notes, photographs, maps, or conversations—and translate that material into layered visual forms. Through collage, mark-making, text, image transfer, and assemblage, I create works that bring scholarship and lived experience into dialogue.

Travel and close observation are also central to my process. I am drawn to places marked by migration, memory, cultural exchange, and contested histories. Rather than treating landscape as a neutral setting, I approach it as a repository of human experience. Paths, borders, fragments, handwriting, worn surfaces, and repeated symbols often appear in my work as traces of movement and belonging.

I am especially interested in the visual dimensions of diaspora and in the ways cultural identity can persist even when language, institutions, or public recognition have been lost. My work asks how people remember who they are, how histories become embedded in material culture, and how art can make space for stories that have been overlooked or submerged.

Ultimately, I see artmaking as a form of inquiry. It allows me to think through questions that cannot always be resolved through words alone. My goal is not simply to illustrate research, but to create visual experiences that invite reflection, recognition, and a deeper awareness of how identity and place are continually being made.