research statement
How can architecture act as a site of cultural memory, healing, and speculative possibility? Especially for communities historically excluded from the built environment’s narratives? My research focuses on soft monumentality, drawing, textiles, and participatory design to examine how overlooked rituals, ancestral aesthetics, and everyday materials shape identity, place, and spatial agency.
Through iterative processes that move fluidly between hand-drawing and digital techniques, I engage the post-digital not as a rejection of technology but as a method for cultural reclamation. Drawing is both tool and trace—used to map histories, speculate futures, and embody emotion. One ongoing approach involves a cyclical method of analog-to-digital translation, where each medium reframes the other to reveal layers of memory and intent.
My projects include Kin Lore, a design studio exploring storytelling through tactile making; and Narrative Terrains, a visual research series examining architecture’s role in drawing lived, remembered, and imagined environments.
Whether in community-engaged installations or speculative archives, my work positions architecture as a slow, relational practice—one rooted in material care, embodied inquiry, and the desire to make space for what is too often overlooked or unwritten.