As a visual storyteller, I create work that merges photography, archival family images, and hand-stitching to explore memory, identity, and caregiving. Each photograph is hand-colored with watercolor, a deliberate process that invites slowness, attention, and reflection. Printed on translucent Japanese Kozo paper, the images allow for layering and permeability, mirroring the fluid boundaries between past and present, presence and absence. Through these gestures, I engage the emotional and material weight of the photograph, transforming it into a tactile expression of care, loss, and remembrance.

Now living in Kentucky, I find an ongoing dialogue between the landscape and the layered histories embedded within these images. Hand-coloring, stitching, and writing directly onto the surface become acts of mending—ways of reinterpreting, holding, and tending to what has been inherited. Each mark, whether threaded or written, serves as both evidence and meditation. Through this practice, I seek to preserve the emotional complexity of family relationships while giving form to what remains unresolved. The work ultimately becomes a reconstruction of memory: an act of tenderness, inquiry, and quiet repair.