Inspired by the rigidity of leather, this bag features an engraved pattern of draped fabric to give the illusion of movement and depth. Made by custom modelling drapery patterns in Blender, shallowly laser engraving the images onto the surface leather, laser cutting the pattern pieces out of the engraved panels,…
Daughter was the recipient of the 2026 UNM Excellence in Undergraduate Arts Research Award. Daughter is a child-sized sewing machine mechanized and programmed to try to sew on its own. Utilizing a combination of custom digitally fabricated mechanisms and housing, arduino controlled motor circuits, and found material, this project poses…
The Tapestry Generator project takes input from audio, video or CSV data and converts it into a usable weaving pattern. The input is first converted into a customizable abstract video, then the video frames are displayed as a scanline image, and finally the tapestry image is converted into a CSV…
When prompted to make a set of three images mapping the sensory experience of a location, I made quilted maps of my apartment from the perspective of my cat. She is elderly and deaf so I focused on mapping the area in relation to tactile sensation, smell, and limited eyesight.…
Phasing (2025) is a projection and textile installation that was a recipient of the 2024 Lunar Arts Award grant from the Space Sustainability Research Grand Challenge (SSRGC) through UNM’s ARTSlab. Phasing is an interdisciplinary work that explores the connection between the moon and queer gender expression in cultural tradition, built…
When being introduced to biomaterials art practices, I learned that the best way to engage with living materials is as collaborators- giving them the autonomy to guide the work. Inspired by this, I personified the materials into a puppet as a way to encourage myself to form a deeper relationship…
Far West Blvd. (2024) is a music video for the song of the same name by AJ Baldwin. It combines computer-generated environments, live-action video, shadow puppetry and found media for a collage effect that expresses feelings of nostalgic longing for an idealized fabrication of the world. The aesthetic references the…
Mine was included in Currents New Media Festival 2024. Mine (2024) is a short machinima video featuring Minecraft gameplay. The piece explores an important moment in a formative childhood friendship- though the relationship was uniquely intense and intimate, this computer generated cube-wedding was the only overt acknowledgement ever made of…
Warping and Unraveling was included in Currents New Media Festival 2024. Warping and Unraveling (2024), a video art piece inspired in part by Stan Brachage’s Text of Light, abstracts images of woven fabric to accentuate its structure, texture, and rhythm. The distortion and overlay reference the common symbolism of textiles-…
Repurposed yellow t-shirt with collaged decal letters reading “there’s good… there’s better… and then there’s actually finishing an art project”. Part of a collection made for the Fun-A-Day 2024 group show at 1415 gallery in Albuquerque, NM.