MassArt x SoWa

I am an artist that explores the edges of how we define and understand photography, often utilizing non-traditional ways of creating an image to open space for questioning or doubt.

The work  included in this show is from my ongoing series, “Things I Can Not Say,” which I began in 2025. The work is born out of an acknowledgment that I have been reticent to speak about my ongoing illness and the ongoing pandemic as these topics are fraught and volatile. Using the coded language of Victorian floriography, I am finally naming some of the feelings and experiences that I don’t talk about, albeit obliquely.

The images are made using LiDAR scanning apps on my iPhone. These virtual, 3D models are technically “straight” photographs – the images are completely unmanipulated and unedited – all of the glitches are from the technology itself failing to visually represent reality. The gaps and misalignments point at the profound changes of the last six years that are not always named. The surface presentation does not reflect what we would see, and also does not meet our expectations of what a photograph should looks like.

One of the hardest parts of having long covid is that my surface still presents as “normal.” The visual vocabulary of this method allows me to make visible the surreality of my day to day life and name parts of my experience that are frequently left unsaid.

• GLITCH ECOLOGY
• Speculative Futurisms