showings & performance
self-directed movements, practices, works-in-progress, experiments, and play
Nothing Shall Be Lost | Performance Works Northwest in Portland, OR | May 31, 2026
An archival poetry art installation, a work-in-progress showing with FIELDWORK
In this six-week Fieldwork session, I wanted to practice moving in and out of the abundance of material I have in my teenage archive. I created a weekly ritual that imposed a limitation on my body and time as I revisited these pages. I did this “operation” four times and came to session each week with either new work or new ways of presenting the work. In the fourth week, I sewed a set of papers together to hang them from the ceiling. That was a moment for me: this is what it feels like to be inside the archive. Even after all this digging, there is still a constant reaching—a requirement to move in and out of the material. There is inevitable loss.
For the final showing, I produced 12 hanging paper chimes with, by complete accident, exactly 111 vignettes and photographs. Most could only be seen by looking up or crouching down—or climbing a single rickety ladder. As the crowd shuffled through, some reached for the spiraling words; others let the sentences and images move away from them, accepting the limitation imposed.
Smarter | Performance Works Northwest in Portland OR | April 18-20, 2025
An original solo performance with Fertile Ground Festival, PDX
Smarter, a 23-minute solo show, follows the inner monologue of a woman who falls into the psychologically trippy hole that is the workplace.
Through a sequence of intimate scenes—from toxic-polite performance reviews to sexual harassment—this show explores what it means to “perform” in a system that reduces people to tools, preys on desperation, and normalizes the fragmentation of the self.
Combining humor, inner-parts dialogue, and some absurd movement involving a swivel chair, Smarter asks how far we are willing to go within capitalism to “work smarter, not harder,” in a system that inevitably harms the most vulnerable and makes fools of us all.
Dramaturgical Support: Kat Frey
Lighting Design: Danny Davis
Genesis Erased | FLOCK Dance Center in Portland, OR | April 17, 2024
Film + poetry work-in-progress showing with FIELDWORK
In an eight-week artist and writer’s feedback group, I began working on an erasure poetry project that uses the book of Genesis as my found text. Since leaving the American Evangelical church after being radicalized by Christianity in my teenage years, this project was a return to my textual, mythological, and linguistic roots.
While the act of erasure is perhaps inherently violent, this project quickly turned into a humorous and tender rediscovery of a thing that I had loved and held so dearly, even as I struck through the text with my black Sharpie to reveal a new, sometimes transformative, sometimes silly, story underneath.
At the showcase, I presented the first three chapters erased in a short film that voiced over the new, punctuated poem of Genesis, and braided this presentation with personal narrative. As the show began, I handed the audience my old worn, leather-bound Bible that belonged to me when I was sixteen, which they held, opened, and passed around to each other.