Artist Statement 

My studio practice is deeply interdisciplinary, drawing from environmental humanities, queer ecology, posthumanism, and the archive. Propelled by my research and volunteer work in environmental conservation, I translate the conceptual discourses and research experience that underlie my work into lithographs, intaglios, and monoprints that propose queer kinship with the more-than-human world in the face of the Anthropocene.

Artistic turns into the speculative supplement my work in research and conservation, transforming my creative practice into a space for queer world building. I create surreal prints that envision queer evolutionary futures, relationality with the more-than-human world, and post-Anthropocene potentiality. These pieces close the divide between animal and human in unexpected ways and question what bodies and intimacies, human and non-human alike, may look like on the other side of mass extinction. These prints draw attention to the false stability of our distance from the natural world, proposing new, closer futures.

I am currently embarking on a body of work that explores these relationalities within the context of coastal ecosystems, figuring beaches and shorelines as ever-shifting liminal spaces that exist between binaries of land and sea, ocean and sky, evoking queer horizons. In this way, the coast becomes a home for queer and trans people, who are defined by their existence in spaces that linger in the in-between. Drawing from counter-archival histories of queer beaches and the coast as a context for escape and leisure, I ground my research in historical foundations, queer ecology, and blue humanities to bridge the conceptual gaps between queerness and nature. By connecting queer and trans people, shifting landscapes, and the organisms that have evolved to thrive in liminal border ecologies, I assert that nature is the product of infinite queer transformation, and that queerness, transness, and the natural world are utterly inextricable from one another.