artist statement

professional work

My professional work for the Times Square Alliance concerns telling performing artists' stories through their connection to the Theater District. My coworkers and I interview Broadway actors and jazz musicians in the heart of Times Square, interviewing them about their memories of the area, why it matters to them, and what they bring to their unique performing style.
I create these interviews specifically for IGTV, Instagram's integrated platform for longer video content.
View my work on the "Broadway Buskers" and "Jazz In Times Square" interviews here.

personal work

My personal work reflects my history and conflicts with my transness, my body, my relationship to diet and exercise, and the larger culture of wellness that informs current American trends. People from all walks of life struggle with body image issues, disordered eating, and stigma around their level of so-called "wellness". Living as a transgender person can exacerbate these worries, since fully performing one's gender can mean the difference between acceptance and ignorance, clarity and invisibility, and even life and death. Whether it's at the gym, in class, or alone in my room, my body always swings to the forefront of my mind, posing the same questions:

What does it mean to transition when neither binary gender fits?
How can I take care of a body that many institutions discredit and demonize?
Why do I perform my trans identity, and for whom?

image credit: Myst, Robyn and Rand Miller, 1993.