A Practice of Embodiment

An exploration of what it means to be present online, and how I choose to show up in those spaces.

A partial image from a flowchart, with options including "Does the platform feel like a safe place to subject my heart and attention to?" and "Go play outside."

Depth Study

A collage contrasting two contemporary artists and how they each explore a subversive creative practice through analog crafts and digital content creation.

Collage of YouTube Shorts. Left: Silver Rox (Gary Keery) making and modeling drag king costumes. Right: Alexandra Masse crocheting unusual pieces like a teapot balaclava and giant bugs.

Hi, I'm Poison Oak

Poison Oak is a drag-inflected interpretive persona I created to discuss plants, wildfire, and environmental justice without being dismissed as “woo” or nostalgia. The character aims to reframe eco-monsters as neighbors who can teach us about boundaries, care, and accountability in the Anthropocene.

A downward angle of  a forest floor. At center focus, a small plant with three, lobed bright green leaflets and a red blush at the edges of some leaves--poison oak. A tan leaf sits below.
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Polyglot Open Space Tour: California Coastal Trail at Wavecrest

This soundmapping project invites listeners and visitors to experience a coastal bluff through the shifting textures of its acoustic life.

In a tunnel-like stand of cypress trees the sun's glare abstracts and highlights the features of twisted, horizontal trunks of dead cypress trees in the foreground.
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Reaching Herd Immunity in a Sea of Fake News

An artistic exploration of the long, entwined histories of misinformation and vaccine hesitancy, and their contemporary implications.

On a background of misinfo tweets, William S. Burroughs wears a blue suit and a skeptical look under the headline “Is there a cure for the virus that is fake news?”
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Know Your Enemy

For this text-as-image graphic design assignment, I highlighted anti-authoritarian parallels between 1992 and 2024 by quoting Rage Against the Machine song lyrics.

Three posters with blue backgrounds on a field of grey. Each poster has lyrics from the song "Know Your Enemy." Each poster's alt text is described in the body of the post.

UCSC Pivot Party

Being able to return to what I thought was an abandoned photojournalism degree path with a social justice focus will ensure I thrive in my time at UCSC.

a brick wall is tagged with "together we create!" in blackletter script, with a white dripping background.