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 social justice issues. To amplify multilingual voices from around the world, I engage people of diverse backgrounds through interview and fiber-arts processes. For instance, “Anxiety” (a communally-made fiber-art project, 2024-25) highlights tapestries made of recycled plastic film. The project addresses the problems of single-use plastics and ecological anxiety. “Tower” (an interdisciplinary video installation, 2021) combines sculpture, video and social engagement. The project highlights accounts of climate change gathered through interviews with people of multilingual backgrounds.

As an artist, I am interested in exploring questions around protecting nature and ourselves through experiments with fiber-arts and interview processes. I am interested in how art can change people’s perspectives on consumerism and environmentalism, and can help lift human spirits from eco-anxiety towards advocacy.