ARTIST STATEMENT

I am an artist working at the intersection of photography, collage, speculative fiction, and emerging technologies. My practice explores how stories—ancestral, imagined, and algorithmic—migrate across time, shifting between fact and fiction, memory and myth. I approach storytelling as a cultural technology: a system that not only encodes the past but also shapes our visions of the future.

My current work is future-facing, investigating the porous nature of time and the evolving roles of vision and memory in an era of machine perception. Remember the Future, my ongoing project, comprises large-scale photographic collages that combine archival imagery, generative AI, and staged photographs of embodied AI figures. These speculative companions appear within desert landscapes that also function as analogue Mars sites—liminal terrains where past and future visually and conceptually collapse. The project includes material made during a residency at the Mars Desert Research Station and continues to expand into video and projection.

Three core concerns guide my practice:
— The life cycles of stories and how they shape identity and cultural memory across generations;
— The utility of fiction in metabolizing complex or traumatic experience;
— The nature of time, particularly as theorized through deep time and the block universe, where time is layered rather than linear.

Grounded in research and poetic speculation, my work draws from media theory, posthumanism, and cultural history, as well as personal and inherited mythologies. I ask what it means to remember in an age when memory and vision are increasingly shaped by machines—and what kinds of stories we will carry forward into futures still being written.