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Economics major, Studio Art minor
My practice spans photography, book arts, and digital imaging--not as separate disciplines, but as a way of thinking about how traditional and contemporary methods can inform each other. I'm drawn to the intersection between handmade processes and digital tools, finding that each medium offers different possibilities for precision, texture, and expression.
The work I make is often a form of quiet self-reflection, though not in an explicitly narrative way. Making things is how I think through ideas, but it's also become a way of understanding myself. The projects I'm drawn to, the choices I make about materials and composition--these end up reflecting something back to me about how I see and move through the world. It's not always intentional, but there's something about committing to a process, working through technical challenges, that make these pieces feel personal even when they're not explicitly autobiographical.
I'm always looking for moments where the method itself becomes meaningful--where the process of making is inseparable from what the work ultimately communicates.
What Stays, What Leaves
What Stays, What Leaves
archival inkjet prints, digital photography
Winter Graduate Show (Fall 2025) - Jewett Sculpture Court
Working with long exposure photography in the city, I became fascinated by how urban life exists in two speeds. Buildings, streets, and architecture stand still throughout time, unchanging and permanent. But people, cars, and movement blur past every second, never stopping. Long exposure captures both realities at once--what stays and what leaves.
In this project I wanted to show this contrast between permanence and transience. The sharp, still structures anchor each image while the motion blur reveals how quickly life moves through these spaces. I added subtle pink tones to soften the usual harshness of city photography, creating something that feels both real and dreamlike. Through this balance of stillness and movement, I found my own way of seeing the city--where what's constant and what's fleeting exist together, showing how urban life is both external and always slipping away.
Clothing as Identity
Clothing as Identity
archival inkjet prints, digital photography
Winter Graduate Show (Fall 2025) - Jewett Sculpture Court
This series explores how clothing functions as a form of self-expression and identity construction. By removing the body and arranging garments, accessories, and personal objects as still life compositions, the work asks viewers to read personality, mood, and character through material choices alone. Each staged scene suggests a different person--their taste, their lifestyle, the image they want to project--without ever showing a face. The chair becomes a stand-in for the human form, while the careful selection and arrangement of items creates portraits that are both absent and present, asking: how much of who we are exists in what we choose to wear?
Leaves of Gratitude
Leaves of Gratitude
ink on Stonehenge paper, typewritten text, handmade book
Winter Graduate Show (Fall 2025) - Jewett Sculpture Court
The leaves on Wellesley's campus, especially in fall, have always drawn my attention--their colors shifting from green to gold to brown feel like a living gradient of time. In this flag book, each flag takes the shape of a leaf, using Stonehenge paper to balance the structure with delicate texture. I curled and punctured some of them to echo the imperfect, organic quality of natural leaves. Inspired by the tradition of writing resolutions or poems on leaves, I typed short texts on several using a typewriter. These words, scattered among the colors, represent expressions of gratitude drifting across campus, quiet acknowledgments of the beauty that lifts my mood and deepens my connection to this place.
Self, Assembled
Self, Assembled
laser cut wood, digital drawing
Winter Graduate Show (Fall 2025) - Jewett Sculpture Court
This piece is a self-portrait, but instead of showing what I look like, it maps who I am through the places, objects, and moments that have shaped me. I drew my profile outline in Photoshop and filled it with elements that represent different parts of my life--buildings from places I've lived, things that I liked and used to matter deeply to me, and details from the spaces I've called home. By laser-cutting the design into wood, I wanted to create something that feels both personal and permanent, where the precision of digital drawing meets the tactile quality of engraved material. The final piece becomes a visual autobiography, where identity isnt' a single image but an accumulation of experiences, memories, and interests layered together.
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