Ozempic and The Magic Mukbang Moment: This performance at Mesa College gallery was performed during my use of Ozempic for diabetes management, exploring medical dependence, desire, and the absurd intimacy between illness and consumption.

BLACK MASS 1 AND 2: A carnivalesque communion of kitsch, ritual, and satire.

Self Portrait as Trans Man: This was a one week long endurance social questioning. I questioned how the world’s gaze would shift if I presented as a trans man rather than a bigender woman? It was a bit immature to think a week would compare to someone’s real lived experience. While I acknowledge the limits of this piece, it opened questions about empathy and embodiment. This became a performative study of gender presentation and social perception. I pencilled in a beard and makeup each day for a week and carried myself in a masculine way.

After a week, I made two pieces; one self portrait seen here, in a wash of inks over 4 pencil iterations of my female face. The other, Mayoral Seaside Portait, can be seen in my paintings section.

Operating Table @ UCSD: echoes of pain, study halls abandoned at night, and neuroscience dreams incomplete. My early aspirations to become a cognitive scientist dissolved amid chronic pain and the heat of self-vacillation. I attended UCSD from 2009-2011 as a neuro student and completed my Bachelors degree in Studio Art 2011-2014.

This piece is about embodying this dream; a colorful German expressionist corpse painted directly on preprepared canvas, treated to appear as a shimmering, cold operating table.

I later used the completed painting to create the Curio Operating Table installation.

In the background of this live painting performance, I streamed the HP Lovecraft audiobook, In The Mountains of Madness.

Orthohorror: For the Adams Avenue Street Fair, I was assigned a live-painting stall at an active car wash. It was a very challenging performance of live painting. I wanted to capture the orthological horror of a surgery I had undergone as a young girl to reconstruct my mouth.

Nancy Grace Debate Debacle: #NAKEDEXAMS became a surreal moment of live television — my unexpected debate with Nancy Grace. I was contacted by the political pundits’ personal team to appear on her show as a debate adversary of sorts.

My professor at UCSD was facing a national firestorm over a controversy in his class. I ended up debating whether or not nudity should be allowed on a publicly funded campus like UCSD.

She ended the debate on a hilarious note — calling me ‘well-spoken’ and admitting she had nothing more to add.

Self as Goddess II: Performed at SDAI Balboa Park, this piece reclaims divine femininity through self-anointment and public spectacle

Interrogation and Forgiveness: a meditation on original sin.

I Love FOOD!: A humorous endurance piece involving food consumption as both pleasure and performance. I spontaneously joined an eating contest, popular national activity in America. Instead of eating the food, I gratuitously made out with the burger.

I Give It To The Sea, Your Secrets: A participatory ritual inviting loved ones to release written secrets into the ocean.