When I was six, my grandfather passed away. My mother took me outside and explained that he had turned into light. She told me that I could find him everywhere because everything in the world depends on light to survive. She said he was in the flowers, the animals, and within our loved ones. I came to the understanding that everything is made up equally of the tangible and the intangible. Humans are made up of body and soul. War is made up of violence and anger, tools are made up of object and intention, religion is made up of devotion and sacrifice,  and love is half demonstration. 

This concept informs my work. I use materials like wood, fiber, paper, and performers; organic and imperfect materials reflect the physical essence of humanity: we are layered, fragile, evolving, and resilient. I use light to describe what we cannot: our impermanence, our emotions, and the breath we all are made up of. My goal is to create an emotional impact that I cannot achieve without this physical to nonphysical interaction. I view every aspect of the physical world as an environment: the body, the home, clothes. In my work, I am trying to create something that is relatable for an unexplainable reason, which can only be done through something invisible interacting with its surroundings. I reverse the dynamic of being shaped by my surroundings and instead take an active role in shaping them. I explore how humans are light, living in environments made up of light; 

we are light perceiving light.