Artist Statement
My art is about American institutions. The dynamics, materials, and histories of prisons and schools become entry points to broader conversations about power, censorship, race, class, and sexuality. I pull from my own experience as an inmate in the federal prison system and incorporate archival research, sculpture, photography, and installations to suggest new ways of understanding social control and disciplinary structures. Social advocacy is a key component of my practice, I am collaborating with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, legal scholars, lobbyists, sociologists, librarians, journalists, and a historian on policy initiatives aimed at curbing prison censorship and the exploitation of convict labor.
