Provocative text flashes across the screen as intimate relationships and private admissions are recounted unapologetically in my videos. Casual, conversational discussions of personal narrative reveal underlying notions of agency, power, guilt, and shame that stem from our cultural norms. The way we use and misuse language creates meaning, and that meaning reflects our cultural experience. Language provides, at best, an imperfect expression. My work translates the imperfections of communication in search of greater understanding.

I am interested in the way language can subtly reflect our societal conditions when filtered through intimate relationships. My concern isn’t with bold statements or generalizations, but in the slightness and subtlety of personal experience. The way we interact in our relationships reflects our cultural framing and the expectations and limitations of our socially prescribed roles. The way we communicate reflects the contradiction and confusion embedded in our understanding of gender identity and sexuality. With a narrowed definition of sex professed as universal truth anything that falls outside of that reductive definition is relegated to perversions. This makes our true desires difficult to confront.

Humor is a strong element in my work, and I use it to negotiate difficult emotional territory. The prose walks a fine line between sincere and absurd, building into itself a level of precariousness. Comedy is a powerful tool for analysis and criticism, and by using humor to question my own experiences and memories I provide a way in for the viewer to begin their own examination. As I try to recall my own history, fabrication and truth are entangled. In my texts I become an unreliable narrator and it becomes unclear where fact ends and fiction begins.