2022

Urban Rituals

Fleet Week: A Maritime Tradition

How military service members navigate between institutional authority and personal freedom during their temporary immersion in New York City’s civilian life.
Urban Rituals

J’Ouvert: Caribbean Identity and Culture in Brooklyn

Chronicling Brooklyn’s J’Ouvert festival as a site where cultural identity materializes through collective ritual.
Mythologies & Symbols

The Father

Paternal archetypes in contemporary urban life.
Mythologies & Symbols

The Lover

Love, desire, romance, and vulnerability flowing through the city.
Intimate Territories

Earworm

Exploring intimacy through ear-touching and whispering.
Ritual & Transformation

Nailshop

Fingernails as sites of evolution, culture, and public ritual.
Intimate Territories

Hair

Hair explored as a site where personal identity intersects with public space.
Mythologies & Symbols

Puer Aeternus

A meditation on the desire to keep childhood’s freedom alive.
Intimate Territories

Oral Intervention

Fleeting, intimate gestures of touching mouths in public spaces.
Intimate Territories

Intimate Intervention

Gestures of touch transforming shared environments into sites of intimacy.
Ritual & Transformation

A Lungful of Air

How substances shape the atmosphere of the city and the psyche of its inhabitants
Ritual & Transformation

Floral Footpath

Flowers as cultural messengers and moving gestures through the city.
Ritual & Transformation

Planted Matter

Metropolitan life through everyday acts of botanical transportation and care.
Mythologies & Symbols

Psychic City

The eye as a conduit between perception and the city.
chroma studies

Red Signified

This work interrogates red as urban semiotics’ most visceral signifier—a color that straddles raw perception and coded meaning.