visual diary,
2017-ongoing

collage archive,
2018-ongoing

NATURE
NURTURE
Round 01, 2025

heavy dreams, 2025

sanctuary,
2024-ongoing

absence as form, 2024

keep watch on the fire in the forum, 2024

ARK.0, 2023

a dream origin story, 2023

audit temporus, 2021

world building, 2020

rawboots, 2018

retazos, c. 2012




SANCTUARY:noun
plural sanctuaries.
  1. a sacred or holy place.
    Synonyms: adytum, sanctum, shrine, altar, temple, church
  2. Judaism.
    1. the Biblical tabernacle or the Temple in Jerusalem.
    2. the holy of holies of these places of worship.
  3. an especially holy place in a temple or church.
  4. the part of a church around the altar; the chancel.
  5. a church or other sacred place where fugitives were formerly entitled to immunity from arrest.
  6. immunity afforded by refuge in such a place.
  7. any place of refuge; asylum.
  8. a tract of land where birds and wildlife, especially those hunted for sport, can breed and take refuge in safety from hunters.


SANCTUARY

is born of a personal, lifelong, and evolving relationship to religion and the questions begged by its existence, history, and reported decline within U.S. culture

SANCTUARY

is rooted in my own experiences raised by Evangelical missionaries in Latin America

SANCTUARY

is the exploration of sacred spaces and rituals as containers for refuge and community
SANCTUARY
is a constellation of ongoing visual studies of religious sites and communities* around Seattle, Washington, USA.  These images reflect my own positionality: caught somewhere between participant and observer as I work to understand my relationship to the divine (in all of its manifestations across time & space) and an involuntary emotional/psychological response to being in the presence of spiritual spaces and iconography.  As observers, we broach the practical and social roles of religious institutions and traditions.  In participation, we are linking ourselves to communities, gestures, and actions derived from apparently inherent principles and a collective unconscious; components of the human equation devalued in an increasingly digitized, analytic, and individualistic world.

2024-ongoing

*Co Lam Pagoda,
Watt Dhammacakkaram,
Immaculate Conception Church,
Blessed Sacrament Church,  
& St. James Cathedral







“Just as a church constitutes a break in plane in the profane space of a modern city, the service celebrated inside it marks a break in profane temporal duration.” - Mircea Eliade
TEMP-LUM/US (2025) (from latin, templum [temple] and tempus [time]/ shared root temp- “time”)

Sacred time is circular; periodical, marking ritualistic festivals within a cycle; and “by its very nature sacred time is reversible.” In partaking in spiritual rites (Eucharist, prayer, ritual sacrifice, liturgy, meditation, etc.) one transcends the historical present to be in an eternal, sacred, cosmic loop.

documentation of sacred time; images of Easter Mass at the mother church of the archdiocese of Seattle (St. James Cathedral) and the oldest standing Catholic church of Seattle (Immaculate Conception).
09:05am
09:21am
09:12am
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09:16am
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09:08am
09:19am
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08:51am
11:56am
10:28am
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