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In my work, I investigate, recontextualize, remix, reposition, restate, and replay images of intimacy, archival history, and the body to find traces of queer contact. Print media is at the core of my practice. I construct images using a variety of traditional and digitally manipulated methods to portray scenes or objects that evoke physical, emotional, or psychological responses. Starting with drawing or photography, I’m curious about how pictures metaphorically transform and mediate narratives around queer subjectivity. I am drawn to the slow pull of the quiet and mundane world of domesticity, particularly a world built through a relationship with someone (or something) else. My recent work highlights material qualities that can be perceived as tactile or felt, creating moments of sensual tenderness and fantasy. I’m interested in both human and non-human traces left in everyday ephemera. Projects consist of urgent and gestural mark-making, collaged wallpaper patterns, and arrangements alongside other textual artifacts. Documenting these minor moments and objects builds an archive of feelings, quietness, and suggestive closeness. Pillows, plants, wallpaper patterns, handwritten notes, clothing, and corners occupy these images like figures in a scene. Allowing these elements to collide implies a sense of archival discovery and emergent possibilities while reconsidering historical narratives associated with queer life. The installations of prints sprawl out, strung together as a medley, reflecting the unpredictable shapes a life can take.