I return to the place where the Salmon spawn. My children bring me offerings of flowers, leaves, and stones as we walk along the rushing water. I hold up a branch of Asters dappled with light from the dancing trees above. Aaron and I stop under a bridge listening and watching, paying attention. We take a moment to feel the water flowing over our hands. We start to return back home. The kids run ahead with their dad, while I slowly follow behind. As I turn a corner, I am trans

the yellow wallpaper is an installation of over 200 clay tiles of various floral shapes in yellow tones, hung to resemble wallpaper. These tiles were formed in the same process as the sugar cookies of my childhood. Both dough and clay rolled by hand, cut with stainless steel cutters of various shapes and sizes. My studio space is most often my kitchen, so clay and cookies inhabit the same space, the identities of artist-mother working in parallel, in tandem. Rooting my work q

As a queer and non-binary individual, my body often becomes a topic of discussion. My expressions of masculinity and femininity are frequently questioned and scrutinized. In this series, "Bio-Power," I engage with Michel Foucault's theory by examining how various perspectives—those focused on biological sex, legislation and policing, and religious interpretations of gender and reproduction—attempt to discipline and define my identity.