Artist Statement
As a composer and visual artist, I work in a third space between the visual and the sonic to produce synesthetic, hybrid content. My work explores how bodies and materials register forces that exceed ordinary perception—how what we call noise might in fact hold the signal of our entanglement with larger systems, from ecosystems to cosmic events. Rooted in trans and queer embodiment, my practice investigates how identity itself can be understood as a sensing system—how moving through and beyond prescribed categories of the body generates new perceptual and ethical possibilities. Through a methodology I term Trans-Sensing, I use sculptural structures, light, and performative gestures to investigate how perception itself can be expanded or retuned. An essay articulating this methodology, “A Corporeal Studio: Trans-Sensing as Sonic Methodology,” will be published in Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture (University of California Press) in November 2025. My ongoing project, Dark Fringe, supported by the Simons Foundation and developed in collaboration with astrophysicist Max Isi, translates gravitational-wave data into a sculptural and performative installation. The project constructs resonant architectural forms that act as “listening architectures,” reframing sculpture and performance as instruments for sensing what lies beyond human scale. Dark Fringe will premiere at Performance Space New York in 2026, reflecting several years of interdisciplinary research bridging art, science, and material ethics.
Vessel – An example of the Phenomenology of Resonance