I am a multidisciplinary artist of mixed heritage—Kaigani Haida from Southeast Alaska, Mexican, and Scottish —drawn to the spaces where these complex and layered, personal and collective histories converge. My work investigates the intergenerational effects of assimilation and the complex forces that shape our emotional landscapes.

I work in abstract 2D art, using bright colors and bold forms as declarations of presence, vibrancy, continuity, and evolution. My sound installations and sculpture draw from archival remnants of family and tribal histories. I often reconfigure these materials—cassette tapes, photographs, documents—transforming recognizable objects of the archive into expressions of ancestral presence and connection. Northwest Coast formline, the art of my Haida ancestors, serves as a visual framework for understanding and transformation, while titles extend the conversation between language and form.

I create with an awareness of the systems we inherit—those designed to fracture connection and suppress spirit—and I imagine futures where those systems no longer define us. My practice holds space for ruptures of displacement and the accelerating shift toward technological consciousness, and considers how these forces interfere with and help to reconnect with identity and kinship. Against this backdrop, Indigenous knowledge systems offer grounding and resistance.

My work moves between continuity and fracture, carrying the weight of an ever-present past and an imminent future that continually reshape one another. I understand cultural continuity not as the preservation of something static, but as a process of diversification through kinship—a weaving of connection across generations and geographies. This is where strength lives: in our capacity to adapt, to reach for one another, and to claim joy as our birthright.