I am a writer and artist fixated on using a camera to try and answer my questions. Moving image moves me. In my work, I reckon with how we can know the particulars or characteristics of a landscape but not know the landscape at all. I am infatuated with and desperate to understand decaying places, with a particular interest in the unkempt physical and temporal residues of human infrastructure. I explore the allocations of space in systems of suppression, injustice, and dislocation. My mediums include installation and moving image, which act in conversation to obscure reality and recall violations and scars inflicted on landscapes by institutions of oppression.
Some Thoughts on Film as your Practice (I wonder if it’ll ever make perfect…) from the point of view of “Who Am I To Say?”, April 2025
If you are worried that something is not your story to tell, then don’t make it into a story. Lean into being wrong about something you set out to discover more on. Don’t try and rationalize the pulling towards something, just be pulled and let it teach you.
Stop asking if your art is going to revolutionize or do something that has never been done before. In making, it’s you doing something in a way that you have never done before, and that’s what makes it compelling. Just do it and find out.
Everyone is trying to document things all the time, and you and I are not special for doing so. But we are certainly gentle for trying to be good in it.