Latest Series: Southern Exposure
Southern Exposure
In this new series, Southern Exposure, I confront my own reintroduction to the rural South during a time of social and political turmoil, where queer bodies and lives are increasingly contested. This series continues the exploration begun in The Quiet Carries Me, using intimacy, absence, and presence to reflect on how personal histories and queer identities navigate landscapes both familiar and fraught. Through layered materials and processes that suggest contamination, intrusion, and transformation, the work examines the tension between belonging and exclusion, visibility and erasure, in spaces often defined by conservative norms. Southern Exposure is both a reckoning and a reclamation—a careful mapping of the rural South as lived, remembered, and reimagined through a queer lens.
Title: This Quiet Carries Me - 2025
There’s a stillness in rural life that can feel both sheltering and suffocating.
This piece is about the tension of queer existence in places that rarely say your name out loud—but where every tree, every field, somehow knows you anyway.
It’s about how nature becomes the only witness. The quiet doesn’t judge—but it doesn’t console either. It just holds you.
Carries you.
For anyone who’s ever walked the backroads of themselves, wondering if they’re alone—you’re not.
Not really.
Title: TBD - 2025