My work explores how our relationship with the unconscious, death, and the unknown impacts our lives, experiences, and identities.

My holography and glass casting projects question the invisible landscapes beyond human reason and rational consciousness, and investigate the tensions between our physical, visible, known worlds and the immaterial, unseen, more mysterious iterations of our existence and identity.

These holographic light recordings are transcriptions from an unseen realm, and emerged from my encounters with sudden death: the death of my only sibling and the death of nature – materialized in climate change events, specifically the wildfires of Southern California.

In the holographic process of recording light waves onto glass, brilliant images of light (not ordinarily visible to the human eye) are revealed and made visible. Through the scientific field of optics and the art of holography, one can observe three-dimensional polychromatic patterns of light waves – normally invisible to the naked eye, yet happening around us at all times.

Working with material light and its mysterious properties and dualistic nature has encouraged me to cultivate a relationship with the mysterious unknown, and the invisible dimension of experience: what we can’t see and what we don’t know. For me, light waves are an expression of the same “beyond” that the unknown, the unconscious, and the reality of death invokes.

I am also drawn to understanding how the transparency and transmissibility of glass and light evokes the essence of invisibility intrinsic to the medium itself. My study of light as sculptured space through holography and glass casting is an embodied investigation into our relationship with darkness, death, and the unknown. My work use darkness and luminosity as tools to embody subjectivity and transformation—addressing the notion that it is only in working with the darkness, that a luminosity specific to transformation can emerge.