My artistic practice explores the spectacle of ritual acts, interrogating the diffusion of symbol into gestures of the body, and the articulation of meaning through the repetitions of social performance. This often manifests as an investigation of religion and Catholicism, often injecting queer indulgences into Catholic rituals. Informed by the sociocultural reverberations of Catholic dogma, my work complicates religious narratives through the act of queering as a form of disrupting its “hetero”-genous (homogenous) ideological system, in order to dismantle colonial social performances of gender and sexuality. I also thematically engage with acts of cultural dissemination through symbolic displays of power and the transmutations of a psychical site into a sensuous reality. My visual sensibilities take great inspiration from drag, magical girls, the plastic, the juvenile, and the dramatics of Catholic aesthetics. I often find myself collecting rosaries, prayer cards, crosses, prayer candles, statues (reminiscent of the trinkets that decorate my mother and grandmother’s altars), and donated toys from secondhand stores. Materially, I am compelled by the plush, the soft, and the fuzzy contrasted with the hostile and the sexual, often working with repurposed textiles in combination with hard plastics, wood, and metals. My formal explorations take the form of wearable objects and multimedia installations, which incorporate the moving image, performance, and public-activated moments. I am constantly exploring how to inject esotericism and weirdness into otherwise strict constructions of being.  To that end, I centre my work towards fashioning a shared experience, urging a form of collective participation to find community, solace, and sympathy as subjects to an invisible yet inhabited complex of (un)spoken rules and regulations.