I am a queer artist and a proud member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, and I was raised in a small rural sundown town on the Chickasaw reservation. For the past 17 years, I have lived in rural Tennessee within an intentional queer community.

I’m a self-taught multidisciplinary artist whose practice incorporates photography, sculpture, set design, and sustainable land art. My work is deeply informed by the intersection of philosophy, science, and art—an approach that allows me to view the world through a prism of possibility, questioning and unlearning harmful, outdated social structures. Science fiction has long served as a guiding framework for me, offering a vision of how we might shape the future by first imagining it. In creating fictionalized versions of the future, we take the first step toward manifesting it into reality.

Much of my photography practice involves practical effects, or in-camera effects, that I use materials like sculpture, lighting, wires, and mirrors to push the boundaries of what photography is capable of and to evoke a sense of magical realism. By creating physical moments of impossibility, I invite viewers to consider alternative realities and expanded possibilities. My work seeks to capture the joy and wonder of existence, offering glimpses of both the present and a reimagined future.

As an artist, I’m compelled by the conversation that happens at the intersection of philosophy, science, and art — a way to see the world prismatically and to unlearn harmful, antiquated social structures. I’ve always looked to science fiction as a model for how we can shape the future we want. By creating a fictionalized version of the future we desire, we take the first step towards its existence.

Most of my work utilizes in-camera effects, using sculpture, studio lights, and mirrors to allude to magical realism. By creating a physical moment of impossibility, I can hold it up to the rest of the world to show what else is possible. My work points to some of the joy inherent in this life, showing it to be as much of the present moment as it is of the future.