My earliest memories are of being disabled, of difference. A vantage point on the edges of society, woven through struggle, genetic disease, a father with dementia, and the hardships that come with navigating life in a rural community when you are “medically poor.”

These experiences of otherness shape how I create, employing specific modes of representation and disability theory that seek to educate the viewer without exploitation or human disqualification. Depictions of domestic life scenes void of accessibility and privilege question the existence of contemporary eugenics through social documentary and push the envelope of current-day disability semiotics in visual culture. Most of all, there remains a vital search for human decency, to take care of what you have, no matter how small.