I am an artist–researcher–educator and PhD candidate in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of British Columbia. My practice brings visual arts, arts-based research, curriculum, and education into conversation, exploring how artistic practice, aesthetic experience, material encounters, everyday memory, and lived experience can become forms of inquiry, learning, and self-education.

My doctoral research is an interdisciplinary, art-led inquiry into cocooning, vulnerability, freedom, and anti/metamorphosis. Through artistic practice, autobiographical reflection, aesthetic inquiry, and curriculum theory, I examine transformation as a complex process shaped by embodiment, uncertainty, resistance, cultural and diasporic experience, and ethical relationships with the more-than-human world.

Across my artistic, research, and teaching practices, I am particularly interested in bringing theory and practice together. My background in painting, sculpture, art theory, mathematics, and art writing informs how I move between material, analytical, and imaginative ways of thinking.

As a Visual Art Instructor in the Continuing Studies program at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, I teach drawing, painting, perspective, figure drawing, and Teaching & Learning in Art and Design. My broader work includes interdisciplinary and qualitative research, curriculum development, digital learning design, community-engaged arts, editing, and translation.

My practice continues to explore how art can create spaces for attention, reflection, experimentation, and meaningful encounters with everyday life.

Education

• PhD Candidate – Interdisciplinary Studies Program, UBC.

• MFA – Painting

• BA – Sculpture

• BSc – Mathematics