Artist Statement

^{Environmental Art and Advocacy}

Hope is a discipline. Despair is an indulgence.

I am an interdisciplinary artist. I create public art projects, fiber-art installations, and mixed media and video works. Many of my projects have been informed by climate change and respond to environmental justice issues. To amplify multilingual voices from around the world, I engage people of diverse backgrounds through interviews and fiber-art processes. For instance, “Anxiety” a communally-made fiber-art project highlights tapestries knotted with recycled plastic film. The project addresses the impacts of single-use plastics while giving visual form to ecological anxiety and transforming collective concern into a shared, tactile experience. Similarly, “Tower” an interdisciplinary video installation combines sculpture, video and social engagement. The project highlights accounts of climate change gathered through interviews with people of multilingual backgrounds, weaving them into a collective narrative.

At the core of my practice is an ongoing inquiry into how art can function as a transformative tool—prompting viewers to reconsider consumerism, environmental responsibility and their relationship to the natural world. I am particularly interested in how art can help lift human spirits from eco-anxiety towards agency and advocacy.