Caustic Memories explores memory through distortion and erosion, using visual instability to suggest recollection as something corrosive rather than fixed.

The project treats memory as an active process shaped by time, loss, and reinterpretation.

CG animated logo featuring a timelapse-style swarm of ants gathering around typographic water. The ants were animated using a particle/instancing system with path controls to guide movement across a predefined logo layout.

Lost Compressions is a time-based project built from unviewed and low-visibility YouTube videos sourced via Petittube. The work examines how digital memories persist not through intention or care, but through infrastructural inertia——files remain stored because deletion is costly, not because they are remembered.

I process the footage through a stable diffusion model I trained based on corrupted video files. This process physically alters and destabilizes the pixels from the original footage. The algorithm recalculates every component and transforms them into blurred, half-remembered, or perhaps completely reimagined fragments. I try to replicate the way my own memories deteriorate over time: faces lose clarity, details slip away, moments are pushed towards abstraction

The project reframes digital storage as a stratified system shaped by access, labor, and infrastructure. By simulating memory decay within an environment designed for permanence, Lost Compressions questions who gets to preserve, who gets forgotten, and how, perhaps, uneven archival systems shape what survives.

This experimental film directed by Rebecca Shapass was developed through archival research on George A. Romero and set within the industrial landscapes of Western Pennsylvania. My role focused on spatial capture and transformation: I pulled Lidar datasets of Pittsburgh streets and old mines, and converted them into point clouds that were animated, layered, and intentionally distorted.This project has been supported by funding from Carnegie Mellon University’s STUDIO for Creative Inquiry Frank-Ratchye Further Fund and recieved the Spring 2023 Interdisciplinary Awards at Carnegie Mellon University.

A stop-motion animation created for WQED using tactile, frame-by-frame image-making. The project combines playful character movement with the handmade imperfections of physical animation.

A nonlinear animated immersive environment built from fragmented recollections of beaches, gardens, car rides, and family spaces. Hazy 2D surroundings and vivid 3D objects evoke the selective clarity and instability of remembered experience.

Blinded is an original short 3d animated film about wildlife disruption due to climate change wildfires. Motivated by bringing greater awareness to wildfire and climate change around the world, this short film aims to build empathy towards climate change's ripple effect on ecosystems and ultimately lead the viewer to become more conscious of individual acts and energy consumptions.

How To Make a Nest Out of Your Own Hair is an instructional performance presented through a step-by-step guide and video documentation. Framed as a practical domestic tutorial, the work stages a surreal yet matter-of-fact ritual, borrowing the visual language and perhaps authority of online instructional content.

The gesture is derived from a practice I studied in my grandmother’s daily routine: after brushing her hair, she would discreetly place her shed hair into a little coconut bowl nestled between pine branches in her yard. I would watch birds, one-by-one, fly to the little coconut bowl, collect a few strands, and fly off. By the end of spring, I imagined her pines full of nests with her hair carefully woven into their fragile structures. By translating an intimate, non-performative gesture into a public set of instructions, the work questions what is lost when care-based practices are removed from their original contexts and repackaged for visibility and replication.

step ● collect your hair until it amounts to the size of a small mandarin

step ●● wash hair with gentle soap

step ●●● while wet, shape the hair into a flat pancake, use scissors as needed

step ●●●● with a needle and thread, weave around the outer circumference of the hair

step ●●●●● pull thread create a small divot at the center

step ●●●●●● let dry

step ●●●●●●● lay your egg(s)

I Miss Your Hands is a time-based video documentation of my performance with hand-shaped candle sculptures cast from molds of my parents’ hands embedded with eucalyptus leaves collected from the Oakland hills where I grew up. During the performance, the candles are lit and held until degredation. I force sustained contact and attempt to remain still as heat slowly burns the insides of my arms and melting wax spills onto my hands. Eventually, release becomes unnegotiable and I cannot help but let go.

Developed during a period of deep isolation due to Covid19, the work translates the infantile impulse to return towards parental closeness into an embodied experience. The interaction between my body and the candle's harsh elements recontextualizes longing as a process that must be physically endured, rather than experienced as a silent and abstract feeling.

Double Music video directed by Bernardo Britto and Alexa Lim Haas for bands Sunset Rollercoaster and Never Young Beach. As 3D Animation Lead, I developed digital environments, procedural and animated material systems, 2D-to-3D integration workflows, and 3D camera animation.

Words from the artists: Our minds are trapped on their own islands of memories, where we wander alone and try to peek into each other’s worlds through the mist. In the fog, floating in the forward-moving soundscape of Sunset Rollercoaster, lovers’ sweet nothings are like prayers and farewells at the same time. never young beach crosses the language barrier with their tenderness, saying we don’t need words to share melodies, nostalgia, and the scenery of the sunset with one another.

An animated 3D identity for One More Again Jewelry.