I am a Brooklyn-based artist and poet working abstractly at the intersection of painting, collage, tapestry, recycled textiles, and sculpture. My work is about climate change: I create energetic monuments to the natural world that express ecological consciousness as powerful, mysterious, and radically empathetic. Environmental advocacy and interspecies connection are at the forefront of my projects. 

The physical surface of my visual art features collaged layers of painted acrylic on canvas pieces alongside weaving and textile elements. My work is a tapestry of textured surfaces and layered colors with detailed moments of unexpected materials. To make this work, I combine histories of painting and tapestry, reimagining their material languages to include a diverse range of craft, decorative, and feminist legacies.

My portfolio is from my series, Svalbard Abstractions, a visual art series based on my first-hand experience of witnessing the realities of climate change in the high Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. In the summer of 2023, I participated in the Arctic Circle Residency, where I spent three weeks sailing close to the North Pole. Encountering extreme climate change and mass extinction first-hand through travel by water profoundly changed me.

Each work in Svalbard Abstractions acts as an empathetic monument to different aspects of the Arctic landscape. My collaged paintings are based on my close observation of the landscape, with references to specific rocks I encountered, or certain sounds icebergs make as they melt.

Others, through their geometry, reflect a greater mystical energy suggestive of deep time and interspecies consciousness. In my artic glass work, I explore the connection between glass and ice, considering how glass suggests the luminosity of ice, and how light moving through stained glass transforms its environment into a fleeting, temporal space—much like the melting and glacial calving events happening now in the Arctic. My goal is to reflect the interconnectedness of our world, and to shift the viewer’s consciousness into a place of empathetic connectivity towards all beings.