Artist Statement

My work lives in the space between the material and the immaterial - in objects, gestures, and rituals that carry more than they appear to hold. I grew up within Daoist tradition, where burning is understood as a form of sending: what is set alight isn't destroyed but delivered, carried across a threshold no living hand can cross. That belief - that a material thing can hold something immaterial, and then release it - runs through everything I make.

In installation, performance, and sculpture, this becomes spatial and durational: rooms built to be inhabited once, objects altered until their original function falls away and something else is revealed underneath. In works on paper, it becomes smaller and more intimate - a letter pressed into a print, a photograph reworked across a decade, marks that hold both my hand and someone else's.

Across scales, I keep returning to the same questions: what can be carried, what must eventually be let go, and what remains once both have happened. My work doesn't try to resolve these questions. It tries to hold them steady long enough to be felt.