I’m a screen and stage designer with a background in architecture and film, currently pursuing an MFA in Theatrical Design with a focus on Integrated Media at the University of Texas at Austin. My work explores unclassifiable experiences through the fusion of space, technology, and multimedia. My award-winning films have been featured at the American Film Institue, Rhode Island and Palm Springs International Film Festival. My practice-based research examines the intersection of visual archives, spatial narrative, and transmedia storytelling.

As a designer, I bring stories to life visually, though it rarely feels like a straight line from idea to form. It begins with an image that arrives uninvited, sometimes from a piece of text, a concept, a fragment of history, or the echo of an emotion that clings to me until I face it. I approach it carefully, make it my own, let it move through me, and then respond. At times the question is sharp and clear, how do I build this so it can stand on its own, how do I create a space that breathes with certain qualities? Other times the question hides, uncertain, so I circle around it, research, gather fragments, cultivate the thought until something in me sparks, a sudden eureka, and then I know: this is the path. The image in my mind begins to solidify, and I polish it until it reveals itself fully.

Design, for me, is a search for the right question and the work of shaping an answer. Art is different, more dangerous, more uncertain. To make art is to invent the question yourself, to set out on a journey with no destination, no companions promised, no map to follow, only a trust in the force inside that insists you move forward. Design steadies me, gives me ground, but when that force calls, I follow it into art.

I thrive in spaces that give me freedom and flexibility, where I can test, play, and experiment without fear. But I also value the moment when some elements are locked in, when the concept is firm, and the challenge is to bring every piece into alignment so the whole breathes as one. In collaboration, I need time to sit with the idea, to let it unfold until the spark comes. I am not interested in creating just to fill space, to add another layer of noise to cultural consumerism. What drives me is the chance to open a new perspective, to make something that shifts the way we see, even if only for a moment.