Platinum-palladium prints

Platinum-palladium prints last for 1,000 years. I transform fragments of time and pieces of people I love into precious objects. Without beauty, the pain of remembering past traumas becomes too much. Perhaps these photographs are a reminder that joy and ache coexist; we must keep going. with us on this journey.

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Installed as a part of the 2025 VCUarts MFA Thesis Exhibition exhibited in The Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU. Curated by Misa Jeffereis (Associate Curator, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis), Egbert Vongmalaithong (Assistant Curator, ICA at VCU), and Chase Westfall (Head of Gallery and Exhibitions, VCUarts Qatar), the 2025 exhibition reveals a cross-section of emergent practices that are rooted in collaboration, experimentation, and the urgency to make meaning in an ever-changing world.