I'm an artist working with fabric, wood, and algorithms. I like to make pieces that help us think about diaspora and migration, violence and social movements, memory, and how technology reaches for intimacy it can't quite hold. My research sits near gender theory, surveillance studies, and decolonial scholarship — my art is considerably more clumsy.
video · screenshot · mixed digital // three artifacts
From a series about recognition and algorithms, these pieces were inspired by Sara Ahmed's phenomenology of emotions like shame and love, which she understands as relational. I wanted to depict how algorithmic recognition/understanding is actually not relational, but contingent, situational, and reliant on our socialization within sociolinguistic contexts where we are taught that text and images are produced by people.
[spring 2026]
Displacement, Los Angeles
fabric · nectarine tree (prunus persica) · photograph
Lately I'm interested in making art about diaspora, displacement, and memory. What does it mean for an object to be out of place, particularly if being in place exposes oneself to violence or precarity? These fabrics traveled long distances to hang from this nectarine tree — native to Central Asia — planted in Los Angeles.
