I have two fortune cookies taped to my studio door that say:
Every day I walk through that door is an opportunity to bring creation into being.
What I care most about is using the time I get in this lifetime to create and share light: to honor my ancestors and a calling to bring light into form. My work is always in the service of care. It is an act of love. It is a form of play and sensemaking intended to encourage connection, healing and empowerment.
I do this by creating work that brings attention back to the senses. My approach involves activation: creating objects, spaces and experiences that expand time so that we can make space for feeling. I believe so strongly that when we slow down we are able to greet the world from a place of curiosity. We become more open to all the possibilities for living more fully, more deeply, more connected.
My materials are my conduits. I use glass, light, scent, image (moving + still), and sound to build sensory worlds that are both intimate and otherworldly. Everything I create is made entirely myself, by hand and through my own senses—from casting glass, bending neon, constructing scent, capturing image and recording + mixing sound. I have a fierce devotion to glass and scent—these mediums have captured my heart. Glass holds and shares light like nothing else; it is connected to the divine. It demands precision and surrender, strength and sensitivity—qualities that mirror how I move through the world. My process is both technical and spiritual: the heat, the timing, the trust that transformation will occur. Scent, too, is a collaborator; it activates emotion, the unseen, what is buried. It fuels my curiosity and grounds me in the present, while opening pathways to memory, play, and the natural world. Together they create experiences that are tactile, emotional, and alive.
I am inspired by many things: the ocean holds a place of spiritual significance. Flowers and caring for plants have taught me metaphors about persistence and growth. Thinkers like Maria Popova and adrienne maree brown have helped me imagine ways that intimacy and beauty can be radical practices. I love the films of Pedro Almodóvar. Experimental cinema. The poetry and sounds of salsa music and reggaeton. Chopin. Opera. I’m inspired by Greek mythology and SpongeBob SquarePants—a deceptively profound figure who chooses softness in a hard world.
I want to change the world by honoring even the smallest acts of care. My work is an offering toward belonging that meets people exactly where they are. It is for me, too: a way to affirm that I am worthy of the beauty I create. My practice is about recognizing the sacred within the everyday, and the power that grows from attention itself. This is where transformation begins—in what is near, in what is ordinary, in what we choose to hold with love. When we honor these moments, they expand—rippling outward until care becomes not just an action, but a way of being.