My work explores identity through photography, video, and writing. Drawing from my experience as a queer, nonbinary person, my work is motivated by an existential need to understand and express myself and to connect with others. My intention is to create work that facilitates intimacy and encourages empathy, understanding, and critical conversations about identity and contemporary social life. As I pursue these aims, I continually explore what it means to live authentically and how visual representation plays a powerful role in that process. My work does not attempt to provide definitive answers; rather, it invites viewers to engage with others in an intimate, meaningful way, requiring them to reflect on their own identities in the process.

Letter to My Daughter, 2023

Video, 16 minutes 

Letter to My Daughter is an autobiographical video directed to my five-year-old daughter, Elinor, about my journey to become a parent and my experiences throughout the first five years of her life. The audio soundtrack is my voice reading a letter to Elinor, and the images are from my personal archive and include snapshots, ultrasound images, and photographs from Family Pictures. The letter is highly personal and addresses a variety of topics, including my expectations around parenthood, the long and circuitous journey of trying to have a child with both known and anonymous sperm donors, the experiences of miscarriage and loss, and my adjustment to parenthood as a queer and nonbinary person. Perhaps most importantly, it tries to put into words the intensity of love between a parent and child as well as the significant personal growth parenthood both inspires and requires.  

 Letter to My Daughter is part of my larger exploration of family. It is in dialogue with my 2017 video, Letter to My Father, which explores my estranged relationship with my father, as well as my long-term series of photographs Family Pictures (2012-present), which focuses on the intimacy of familial relationships, aging, and the passage of time through an extended look at three generations of my family.

• Matrescence
• In this body of mine