I am a spatial researcher, writer, performance artist, musician, and designer based in the United States. My research explores action-based and embodied methodologies through a feminist, queer, and ruralizing lens — as a form of critical spatial practice, and an emergent tool in the design process.

I have always been fascinated by the impact and creation of place, and the ways in which relational identities are shaped by the spatial tensions between our external environments and our internal, embodied voids. My performance work is an extension of my architectural research, using action as a place-making mechanism by unearthing movements from site-specific histories and distilling, re-contextualizing, and subverting these to reveal the ways in which bodies have occupied and engaged with place. My background in music performance and composition equips me with a minimalist, process-based approach and an emphasis on ephemerality. Tapping into the audience’s perceptions of my body (as other, self, object) my work augments or exaggerates these perceptions through durational action. In doing so, I de- and re-contextualize my body as a place of constructed and performed gender, as an artifact of my ancestors, and as a site of present action.

I graduated from Princeton University with a Masters of Architecture and a certificate in Media and Modernity in 2024, and hold a double major in Music and Architecture from the University of Washington, graduating Magna Cum Laude with Interdisciplinary Honors in December 2017. I have performed and presented my work with Base Experimental Arts + Space, On The Boards, Suspend:Release Performance Festival in New York City, Cry + Roar Festival in Seattle, as a resident artist at La Wayaka Current residency program in the Chilean Atacama Desert (2018), with ChaNorth Artist Residency (2019), with SOIL Gallery’s Fishbowl Residency (2020), YellowFish VI Durational Performance Festival and Residency (2020-21), PerformanceIsAlive Satellite Art Show in Miami (2021), FLUX Factory (2022), and Glasshouse ArtLifeLab (2022), among others. My writing has been featured in LOG, Thresholds, ARCADE NW, and Emergency Index. I have presented research at the Bachelor Home conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil under the leadership of Beatriz Colomina and Jose Lira, and at the Building Life workshop in Princeton, NJ under the advisory of Spyros Papapetros. I am a recipient of the Suzanne Kolarik Underwood Thesis Prize from Princeton University (2024) for my research into the potential of maintenance sheds as both repositories and registers of transformations occurring within constructed rural landscapes. I have also received the Graduate History and Theory Prize from Princeton University (2024), the Butler Travel Research Fellowship (2023), the CBE Robin M. Towne Endowed Scholarship in Acoustic Architecture (2016) and the University of Washington Library Research Award Grand Prize (2017) for my research into John Cage’s theories of silence as strategies for deconstructing urban planning policy through the lens of acoustic ecology. I am a former member of SOIL Gallery in Seattle, WA, and of Pink Noise Projects in Philadelphia, PA. I am also founder of direct object, a project exploring the idea of book as an architectural frame to be inhabited by crowdsourced ephemera.

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