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FEATURED PROJECTS

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2026

everything in between

Everything In Between is an exploration of the quiet, charged crossings between species—specifically, the wolf, the lion, the tiger, the iguana, and the serval—and the artist whose life line weaves, however briefly, through theirs. The project unfolds across two mediums: photography, which captures the tangible instant of encounter, and installation, which shapes a physical space where viewers can move through the invisible architecture of time, fate, and existence itself. 

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2025

flicker

“Flicker” is an invitation to sit with that certainty—an intimate conversation with the final light. 

This project explores the fragile threshold between science and spirit—where the physical dissolution of the body meets the luminous rituals of Día de los Muertos. It looks at what remains when a heart stops, when neurons flicker out, when warmth slips back into the world as heat. Physics tells us that energy cannot disappear; tradition tells us that love refuses to. Between these truths, this work finds its purpose. 

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2025

WHEN WE SAY VAQUITAS AT CICA

Solo Exhibition at CICA Museum.

A vaquita is a point of collapsing spacetime.This exhibition orbits that collapse through the eyes of those pulled into its gravity: fishermen, poachers, conservationists, scientists, each caught in a different frame of reference, each certain of their own account. Their accounts don't resolve into one story; they warp around each other like light around mass — bent, delayed, arriving from somewhere already gone. What remains at the center grows smaller. What surrounds it keeps growing.

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2025

THE TEXTURE OF ALMOST

"The Texture of Almost" transforms personal photographs into ethereal composites where AI-generated dreamscapes layer onto documentary images, creating hybrid works that exist between what was captured and what was remembered. These pieces explore memory as a creative act rather than faithful documentation, suggesting our most profound experiences live in the soft spaces where reality dissolves into imagination.

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2015-2020

WHEN WE SAY VAQUITA

WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT

Multimedia documentary series regarding various operations upon saving the critically endangered vaquitas.

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2021

between the geyser and the mountains

A documentary photo series on landscape and wildlife of Yellowstone.

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2020-2023

Soap bUBBLES IN
DREAMLAND

Dreams, memories, and thoughts are all different yet interchangeable. All of those are the bubbles in my mind. The bubbles I create in my head change the perspective I view and remember about the world. 

2017-2019

MARSHMALLOW WILDERNESS 

Step into the lives of arctic wolves at the Conservators Center and feel the love between the Wolf Team and the wolves.

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2016-2020

the
promised
wonderland

Photography project documenting the behaviors and status of animals in captivity. Within the project there is a photo book highlighting particular animals with a poetic touch.

Summer 2019

FINAL

FRONTIER

A documentary photo series on Alaskan landscape and wildlife.

Summer 2017

HOWL

A documentary film about red wolves in North Carolina and the extant conservation approaches.

Summer 2016

STORY

OF BERLINER

Photography project documenting the lives and stories of people in Berlin.

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Fall 2016

MASKED

A experimental film revealing the two sides within the heart of a girl.

Fall 2017

BEATS

A story of music about a high school junior Toby at Durham School of the Arts.

Fall 2016

RED RUFFED

LEMUR

A time-lapse drawing about basic information, threats, and conservation approaches of red ruffed lemurs.

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