What does it mean to be in—or out of—place? My practice investigates the physical and conceptual boundaries that organize the environments I move through, tracing how belonging is shaped by structures that often remain unseen. Working across photography, sculpture, and installation, I examine how cultural, spatial, and gendered systems of control condition perception. By attending to the forces that sort, contain, and classify, I reveal that the ways we see—and the frameworks through which we are seen—are never neutral.

My process is dialogical: an ongoing exchange between body, material, and environment in which each influences the other. Rather than impose form, I work responsively, allowing materials to guide their own transformation and the gestures that shape them. This approach resists extractive ways of seeing and making. It aligns with feminist practices that center embodied knowledge and relationally, where care, attentiveness, and reciprocity take precedence over mastery. This stance emerges in part as a critique—and reimagining—of my training in architecture, a field in which value is often equated with control, precision, and the seamless execution of intent...