My work deals with encounters between people. The urgency, excitement, and awkwardness of human interactions drive my questions about gender, race, class, and activism. I create live art work and sometimes use masks because they allow me to border between reality and theatricality, the staged and the documented. Masks let me become invisible thus making me more visible to people who would otherwise disregard my presence because I am a woman of color. They allow me to examine the dialouge of looking and I become both the observer and observed.

My projects happen mostly in public. My photography and video are initiated from a documentary impulse where everything accidental and local becomes setting and character. They are the residue of a live event. I adjust to any given circumstances using available light in order to allow for a malleable definition in the image to emerge. I see the environment surrounding the human form completes its story.