Visual Art
“The Thing With Feathers,” Wild Greens Magazine, February 2022
The Angola Prison Museum
Photos Taken Summer 2017
featured in Contingent Magazine
Flight
Wild Greens Magazine, October 2022
acrylic, acrylic markers
Methods: collage
Inspiration: This piece is inspired by haunting, death, and grief as flight. Contrasting the images of well known living women with an image of 'the girl with the green ribbon' I try to evoke the duality of flight, of life, of haunting.
The Buried, 2016
Acrylic on Palette Paper, Da-Vinci Art Alliance
Published in Just Femme and Dandy
Not Dead Yet, Published in Wild Greens Magazine, June 2024
Mixed media, collage, paper, scraps, acrylics
Inspiration: In this picture (I was fine), I recognized death, and, in particular, the death of AFAB people that our society is obsessed with only after they are killed. I also recognized that though I looked dead (perhaps) none of the illnesses, identities or other conditions that can and may kill me have. What does it mean when we ourselves, the living, mirror death?
After All These Years
Published in Wild Greens Magazine (June 2025)
Mixed media, collage, photography, acrylic paint, paint pens, watercolors
Inspiration: This collage juxtaposes Philadelphia's Divine Lorraine Hotel, with Divine, the star of John Waters Baltimore set camp classic Pink Flamingos. The Divine Lorraine is a storied building in North Philadelphia that for years sat abandoned before its "restoration" as high end apartment buildings and shopping. These apartments had high vacancy rates and by 2025 only the shopping leases remained, though the new owners plan to redevelop it into more new apartments. In the years between The Divine Lorraine's heyday and its redevelopment, it became a home for the unhoused, drug users, kids, grafitti artists and so called "urban explorers." Divine was a Baltimore based drag queen, known for his work with John Waters. In their first films, they used camp and gross out humor to highlight the absurdity of working class culture and homophobia. Pink Flamingos was initially panned and deemed pornographic by many, though it is now considered a cult and queer classic. The words throughout this collage are taken from contemporaneous reviews of Pink Flamingos as well as reporting on the Divine Lorraine in the decades when it was abandoned. This work seeks to address gentrification, classism, the racism inherit in both, and the art that was created and deemed as "just graffiti' or "porn" by residents of Baltimore and Philadelphia, two Mid-Atlantic cities that have more in common than a shared architecture. There is a culture of Mid-Atlantic cities and it is DIVINE
The Divine Lorraine, Broad and Fairmount, 2012.