Installation · Sculpture · Material Studies

Mixed Media + Installation

A collection of mixed-media works exploring sculpture, projection, light, and unconventional materials through a series of independent studio projects.

2020–2022 · Artist · Fabricator · Independent Studio Work · High School Portfolio

Created as part of my high school portfolio and independent studio practice, these works became an early space for experimenting with physical materials, moving image, light, and installation. I used objects ranging from etched glass and wire mesh to prescription bottles, projection, cardboard, and found technology.

Three photographs of clear glass light bulbs etched with a fingerprint pattern: two lit against a black background on the left, and one on a white surface casting a fingerprint-patterned shadow on the right.

Self Portrait - Uniquely Me · 2022

4 × 4 × 3 in · Mixed media, illuminated fingerprint etch on lightbulb

I etched my fingerprint into a lightbulb as a self-portrait about individuality and the importance of maintaining a sense of identity.

Awarded Works

Assault on Science · 2021

27 × 10 × 12 in · Mixed media, microscope, bible, laptop

Growing up with Christian teachings while learning scientific theories at school, I used a microscope, Bible, and laptop to visualize the tension I felt between creationism and evolution.

2022 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards · Gold Key · Expanded Projects

A USB microscope aimed at an open bible on a black background, with its magnified view of the page, a passage from Genesis, shown on a laptop beside it.

Critical Mass · 2020

13 × 16 × 10 in and 8 × 8 × 8 in · Mixed media, typography on acetate, wood skewers

Inspired by dystopian fiction, I built nested structures around words like information, surveillance, control, and power to explore how access to information can shape society.

2022 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards · Honorable Mention · Sculpture

Projection + Moving Image

Continental Drift · 2022

10' × 9' · Multimedia, projected video onto parking lot asphalt

Built from the only photograph I had of my father growing up, I edited the figure into a moving image and projected it across a parking lot, turning an inaccessible memory into something temporary and physically fragmented.

Installation

Documentation of a projection on a dark parking lot: a woman in a magenta top and a smaller figure in a pink dress stand beside a projected image of a man, over painted parking markings reading COMPACT.

Final video

Fool's Gold · 2022

60 × 24 × 18 in · Mixed media, shaped fencing mesh, gold acrylic spray

Using the butterfly effect as a metaphor, I explored how my father's absence shaped my childhood and how my idea of what made a family complete changed as I grew older.

Detail

Close-up views of the Fool's Gold wire figure: three photographs of the gold-sprayed hexagonal fencing mesh shaped into a standing human form, seen from behind, from the front at an angle, and in a close crop of the head and shoulder.

Video installation

Material Experiments

Building the Golden Child - Baby Fusion · 2022

16 × 14 × 10 in · Mixed media, plastic babies, fencing wire, laptop, cascading code

Inspired by Klara and the Sun, I imagined genetic modification pushed toward an artificial idea of the "perfect" child, questioning what is lost when optimization replaces individuality.

Two views of an open laptop whose screen shows green cascading code, with gold-painted plastic babies climbing over the keyboard and screen inside a hexagonal fencing-wire mesh.

A sculpture of stacked amber prescription bottles lit from inside by LEDs, shown beside a photograph of a person at a bathroom mirror holding a pill bottle.

Watching Friends Consumed by Medicinal Magic · 2021

13 × 13 × 12 in · Mixed media, stacked prescription bottles, LEDs, self, digital application for reflection

I used illuminated prescription bottles and a reflected self-image to explore the tension between medication as care and the ways it can become associated with control or misuse.

Personal Studies

Clarity Loss · 2022

12 × 5 × 1 in · Mixed media, suspended plastic babies, acrylic spray, monofilament line

Created in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, this piece reflects the confusion and fear I felt about what the decision meant for the future.

Two views of a faceted human face mask cut from corrugated cardboard, one topped with a striped fabric cap, lit dramatically against a grey wall.

Whispers · 2021

9 × 6 × 3 in · Cut corrugated cardboard

Created as my final project for the RISD Summer Program, this mask contrasts the structured, "perfect" version others may perceive with a more organic reality underneath, reflecting pressure, exhaustion, and perfectionism.