My artwork explores the themes of funeral practices, death, and grief. I use childlike materials and color palettes to create soft sculpture photo books that make these topics more approachable.

I utilize fabric, yarn, embroidery thread, buttons, and other materials easily found in a craft store. I specifically use these within a childlike color palette. These colors include pastel greens, pinks, blues and yellows, as well as brighter versions of these colors. Combining these materials with photo prints, allows me to create books varying in texture with these textile materials and paper prints. For my photographs, I use a combination of high-quality and toy cameras made explicitly for children, giving the photos diverse appearances. This is important, as the cameras are both representative of childhood and transitioning into adulthood, which speaks to the death I experienced as a child, and how I look back upon those moments.

I find myself most inspired by funeral practices and how humans deal with the suffering that comes with death. This includes interests in body composting, pet cemeteries, and traditional burial practices. For example, Campbell’s Curse, created in 2024, is a soft sculpture book containing gum bichromate prints pigmented according to the putrefaction process. The photographs include representations of family members who I have lost to death. Each print has its own embroidery, lace, and crochet specific to the image. Overall, This book can express ideas of decomposition while doing so in a way where individuals do not feel so uncomfortable while viewing the work itself.

Currently, I am taking photographs of preserved and taxidermied spiders and insects within my work to explore the idea of the deaths of animals. This further allows me to discuss how these animals are treated within death. I am crocheting and knitting landscapes for the specimen to be placed in, allowing the photographs to feel comforting, even though there are dead spiders and insects within them. My work continues to discover different representations of death, grief, and funeral practices, therefore creating a diversified body of work while still all being connected to death.