Artist's Statement:

From colloquial to commercial, language to iconography my interest is in creating images that mark an uncovered history, a personal lineage of migration and a legacy of power struggle. The transformation of language and cultural objects into something organic and interconnected is essential to the recognition of vernacular as historical record.

The urban landscape offers a grounded investigation in materiality and the shifting of value. The growing effects of gentrification and the histories of displacement open a dialogue into locality, physical
space and collective memory.