motivated by the desire to grow alongside others in a perpetually expanding world, i create digital art exhibits that hold space for change. this involves using sound, pixels, space, code, and emerging modes of communication to produce mostly time-based media and build participatory structures for cultural production. perceptually, there is significant overlap between the heavily layered, atmospheric, experimental arrangements i compose and their antecedents in the industrial genre, psychedelia, and feminist afrofuturism.
having graduated from the bass school of arts, humanities, and technology, i draw on an academic background in sociology, design, and media history to guide my methodological approach. synthesizing insights from ten years of employment as a freelance videographer and several more as a courier, my interdisciplinary workflow involves stanford design thinking, the double diamond framework, and filmmaking phasing. furthermore, lived experience as a working black queer immigrant informs my thematic and aesthetic sensibilities alike.
lastly, since i first began producing music and street performing at 16, sampling and busking have been indispensable aspects of my practice. faced with epochal levels of wealth inequality and political disenfranchisement, members of market-dominated societies stand to gain immeasurably from these techniques. both make necessary resources sustainably accessible by offering alternative means of distributing them beyond those legitimized by the state and capital. in turn, they aid in protecting the commons, fertile ground wherein every reality germinates like a seed. there, my inner child who once used rubber bands as string instruments and modeled jetpacks out of styrofoam duct-taped to pringles cans is emancipated from lack.