VISUAL ARTIST

A Florida-based freelance writer, director, photographer, and editor.

ARTIST STATEMENT:

My work employs narrative storytelling to investigate the construction of social reality, primarily through short-form filmmaking and tableau photography. I observe how cultural and cinematic codes are arbitrarily naturalized to perpetuate a particular status quo — one characterized by feelings of isolation, mundanity, and disillusionment. Additionally, I explore how this discontent manifests itself as a motivation and longing to reproduce the world through visual media. As our perceptions are more regularly channeled through representations than the ‘real world’, my work argues that the reality we collectively inhabit is as artificial and narratively controlled as film itself. 

In collaboration with film production crews, my practice applies the visual language, logistical operations, and apparatuses of traditional cinema. Through this methodology, fabrication and fictionality are foregrounded — supporting an interrogative intersection between the artifice and the actual. Additionally, through the engagement of antimimetic narrative and the incorporation of the apparatus, I survey the properties of temporality, continuity, and metafiction in visual storytelling; this contributes to the evolving dialogue on how cinematic language can be reinterpreted across contemporary photography, film, and visual art.