Creative Direction / Styling / Production / Photography / Writing
I’m a NYC-based creative director, stylist, photographer, and writer. I started as a painter, studying at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where my first instinct as an artist was simply to make marks and see what happened. Painting taught me how to sit with an image long enough for it to reveal something back.
But I’ve never been very good at staying in one place.
What began with paint slowly spilled into other forms—photography, fashion, installation—each one another way of chasing the same impulse. Over time, my focus evolved toward creative direction, styling, and production: building worlds and visual narratives rather than single images alone.
My process has always been the same: make a mess first, make it beautiful second. I scatter ideas, fabrics, objects, and references across a space until something begins to emerge. I don’t start with perfection in mind. I start with chaos and trust that meaning and beauty will find their way in afterward.
Most of what I make comes from lived experience: the women who raised me, beauty, pain, excess, vulnerability, and the parts of life people prefer not to look at for too long. I’m drawn to tension—things that feel visually beautiful but emotionally complicated.
I’ve never wanted to make work that sits quietly in the background. I’m interested in images and objects that carry friction, that people feel pulled toward or pushed away by, but rarely neutral about.
