Girlhood Arrested: How Girlhood is Shaped by the Carceral Landscape in Louisiana
2025
Sprial-Bound Book and Workshop
Designer, Co-Author, and Editor
What began as a zine and self-publishing workshop with The Visiting Room Project (TVRP) developed into a 230-page book initiated by my collaborator Kennedi Johnson and me.
Girlhood Arrested: How Girlhood is Shaped by the Carceral Landscape in Louisiana is a reflection on the Girlhood Zine Workshop we held, the possibilities of girlhood as an organizing construct of self outside of incarceration, and is a transhistorical engagement with the archival gaps of women’s lives and stories. It contains zine facsimiles and t-shirts by participants, essays, interviews, and archival material from the Louisiana state archives.
The design takes inspiration from disciplinary forms in prison. Throughout the book, text and images run over and outside of the gridded lines with no regard for attempts to fix or constrain—a conceptual move reflecting the formation of identity outside of the context of incarceration.
countersense
2025
Swiss-Bound Book and Presentation
Designer and Author
countersense my MFA thesis, is a culmination of my 2 years at RISD. It embodies a counterhegemonic practice of sense-making; it is a practice of opening up our present conditions for critical reflection and remaking. Viewing graphic design as an interdisciplinary and expansive field of meaning-making,
countersense is the framework I perform between experience and ideology, self and material conditions—always foregrounding what politics are chosen as a result of the personal. More soon.
everyday utopia
2025
Jacquard-Woven Textile
Designer
everyday utopia is a jacquard-woven blanket inspired by
A Decolonial Feminism by François Vergès. The blanket features interlaced text that is read from opposite directions: "utopia a radical promise" from one vertical orientation, and "the not yet here" on the other. Smaller action verbs and phrases spaced throughout the cloth prompt reflection on the question of liberation past, present, and future, a practice grounded in the body and within the everyday—not some far off or abstract future.
Yik Heng interpreted the digital design by Jacob Marcus and me, indexing graphic pixels into woven structures and form, and created this collaboration. And it features body glyphs from Nat Pypers's Michiyo Fukaya font
On Measurement
2024
10 6x9" Double-Sided Prints
Designer and Researcher
How a culture views the body is historically and politically specific. Albrecht Dürer’s
Instructions on Measurement, published in 1528, marks a transition for how the western body is represented—shifting from a metaphysical understanding to a rationalized subject. Over time, pursuit of bodily knowledge has become nearly indistinguishable from the pursuit and possibility of control. I use my own body to illustrate this logic at a 1:1 scale, and
On Measurement considers the historicity of Dürer’s work and situates its representation within a lineage of technologies from 1528–today that aim to capture, measure, and analyze the body.
The End of History—History of the End
2025
Dos-á-Dos Book
Designer and Researcher
In 1989, Francis Fukuyama, known for advising the Reagan administration, made the claim that we had reached “the end of history.” Seeing the waning power of the Soviet Union, according to Fukuyama, there were no longer any threats to the global rule of neoliberalism.
The End of History–History of the End is a book of two timelines. Section 1,
The End of History, documents key events contributing to the global dominance of neoliberalism. Importantly, it shows that this process was never destined, but achieved through coups, assassinations, and violent imposition. Section 2,
History of the End, documents global acts of resistance to neoliberalism. It’s a collection of living proof that people want and are fighting for an alternative. Future alternatives have never been foreclosed; there has always been contingency and a desire for living otherwise.
RISD Graduate Studies Tote
Commissioned by RISD Graduate Studies, I designed custom type utilizing forms I extracted from photos I took of RISD graduate studio and common spaces, like Fleet Library—creating a RISD visual vernacular.
RISD Campus Exhibitions Brochure
I designed RISD's campus exhibition brochures for the 25–26 academic year.
RISD Graphic Design Triennial Site
2024
Website
Designer and Developer
I lead a small web design team, functioning as both primary designer and sole developer of the 2024 triennial site. The design translated the print and spatial identity to the web, and was developed conceptually under my lead. The dots on the homepage (links to individual works) randomize location, or "expire," with every refresh to reflect the curatorial direction
fragments of a future
2025
Poster and Video
Designer
fragments of a future is a response to Karen Brodine’s poem
June, 78. In the poem, Brodine begins with embodiment to critique her experience living as a working class lesbian in 1978 San Francisco.
June, 78 ends with the speculation of a future, one in which we and our communities are well. I worked by hand to layer and arrange each cutout into a large-scale poster. I recorded this and added a voiceover, the documentation becoming a performance of the poem. The mode of making becomes its content: an accumulation of fragments to construct something new.
The houses, the air, the streets
2025–2026
10 8.5x11" Silk Organza Prints
Designer
Sense permeates my work and is utilized as a means for understanding, critiquing, and responding to the environment I live in.
The houses, the air, the streets is a prompt for others to do the same. The series of 10 silk organza prints reuses text from
June, 78 by Karen Brodine, but the arrangement and meaning are open. The prints can be viewed together as a book—bound through grommets with binder rings—taken apart and viewed individually, or rearranged and clipped together horizontally—creating a modular, generative writing. With the transparent silk material, each print functions as a filter of the immediate environment. The prints offer a plane to make open-ended connections between color, personal association, and environmental context, prompted by the printed excerpts. These connections can be either critical or constructive between each print’s text contents and their spatial context; either a juxtaposition or a positive recognition.
An Empty Pedestal is an Invitation
2025
Website Design and Development, 2 Large-Format Prints, and Zines
Designer
Following protests and repeated vandalism of a Christopher Columbus statue in 2020, the city of Providence removed it from its pedestal in the Elmwood neighborhood. In 2023, the statue was gifted to the city of Johnston, Rhode Island, where it became a symbol of reactionary culture. Where local residents of Elmwood responded to the statue by criticizing the violent history it embodies, the statue in Johnston elicited white nationalist recruitment of residents. The responses of the two locations raise important questions, namely: Who can politicize Columbus? And to what ends?
An Empty Pedestal is an Invitation politicizes the local history between the two locations and reframes the pedestal where Columbus once stood as an invitation to imagine otherwise.