Photography
Writing
Film
ARTIST STATEMENT
My art is deeply rooted in my identity as a chronically ill and disabled person. I began to center illness in my work when I realized it wasn’t something I had to mask or minimize , it’s a fundamental part of who I am. Living with a chronic illness shapes how I move through the world; my routines, relationships, my career, and creative process are all filtered through that lens. My artistic practice gives me the space to explore and express the complexity of disability and to celebrate the disabled body.
Rather than engaging with illness and disability purely within a medical and sterile context, I’m interested in how they can be reimagined ; how lived experience, memory, and embodiment can shift the narrative. Ultimately, I want my work to spark more conversations around disability in the arts and to challenge societal shame by focusing on and celebrating the richness and nuance of living with illness. By placing my body, my medical supplies, and my lived experience at the center of my work, I’m claiming space and inviting others to see disability not as something to pity, but as something that is powerful and whole.