Location: Buffalo, NY, USA
Medium: Instant Photography, Collage, Painting
Contact: admin@fuguegallery.com
My work spans sculptural painting, collage, instant film photography, experimental hip-hop, and curatorial projects, with each medium carrying residue from the last: paint scraps become collage, collage methods inform performance wearables, and performance shapes my run-and-gun photographic approach, all guided by improvisational instincts and a flow-state logic that samples and redirects earlier versions of myself into new forms. Across these practices, I return to consistent themes of relationships, community, emotional honesty, depressive tendencies, environmental and societal dread, and the small moments that structure a life, using reused materials, saturated color, floral imagery, and fragmentation to explore growth under pressure and the ways people find beauty in chaos, intimacy, and connection. My work ranges from inch-scale photographs to body-scale wooden constructions built from oriented strand board, cardboard, fabric, thrifted objects, and remnants of past projects, embracing controlled chaos, motion, and archival accumulation, with many pieces completed in a single sitting to preserve immediacy. My music follows the same principles and utilizes distortion, chopping, vocal sampling, and beat manipulation mirroring material reuse and reassembly while performance, wearables, and video direction bridge the sonic and visual worlds. Curation further shapes my practice by teaching me to recognize strengths in others and collaborate through community, and overall my intent is to document how people live, connect, and isolate, creating work for both myself and the everyday person that shifts between clarity and withholding while holding space for beauty, honesty, and occasional dread.
