When do you work best?
I work best in the morning after coffee. 

How has your practice changed over time?
It has come off the walls and really considered the space and environment of the viewer. 

What fuels you?
A hope that my work inspires a different relationship to the land we all rely on, and hope to inspire a more reciprocal, balanced way of moving through the world

What material do you work with and why?
I work with anything that calls to me for a project but I have a special space in my heart for the camera that I inherited from my father.

How do you get unstuck?
Getting outside, being in water, ocean, spring, hot spring, reconnecting to my intuition.

Where do you find inspiration?
I love talking to my friends and my daughter to think through ideas, and I do a lot of research on Tongva culture. Being outside always inspires me, especially looking at the night sky.

Who has influenced you and your work?
So many people, my professors at SFAI: Reagan Louie, Linda Connor, Henry Wessel Jr., J. John Priola, Alice Shaw, among many others. Also other artists like Ana Mendieta, Catherine Opie, Laura Aguilar, my Tongva ancestors, elders, culture bearers, and my daughter.

Who do you hope to influence?
Everyone that might need a re-connection to the land, nature, and ideas of Indigeneity.

Why are you an artist?
I knew I couldn’t be anything else and be truly fulfilled. 

What advice would you give other artists?
Find your core, work from there, strengthen your intuition, and let it guide you.

What question would you like to ask other artists?
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