Seeing is a physical act, an act of touch and recognition. On a fundamental level, all that we see is shaped by the physics of light and the intricacies of our perception. I am a nonbinary trans-feminine artist working with the materials and histories of photography, printmaking, and representational drawing and painting. Through devotional acts of image and object making, I question the rigid and violent organizing principles that structure our public and private lives—and hold sacred the complexity of embodiment, intimacy, and identity construction. I have created room-size installations exploring the bathtub as a metaphor for the body; made large-scale kallitypes using the mechanics of light to reveal the fluidity of a figure in space; and combined mechanical drawing, photo processes, and oil painting to capture the delicacy of healing. I view process, materiality, and embodied knowledge as essential research in my practice. I am driven by my compulsion to seek out the ghost of the making in all things that are made—and my desire to share the revelations I find in these encounters.