2023
Photograph
‘Orientalism’ describes how the ‘Orient’ was constructed through a Eurocentric gaze, othering and subjugating its histories, cultures, and identities. The ‘Oriental woman’ is portrayed as exotic, inscrutable, and mysterious, while the interplay of veiling and unveiling simultaneously invokes her resistance to and submission under the gaze.
2023
Photograph
Morningstar Quill
This portrait brings together two women, wrapped in the cloths of their respective cultures, whose lives are shaped by distinct colonial histories and experiences of living in Canada as a First Nations woman and a newcomer. They find common ground in their shared love of culture and the enduring work of cultural continuity, identity, and belonging.
2023
Photograph
This is the subaltern: the forgotten, the ignored, the subjugated. The voices pushed to the margins, denied the power to speak, represent, and define themselves. Yet its voice, its call, grows like a flower—evoking the hope and power that lie in reclaiming our narratives.
2023
Photograph
To gaze is not simply to look; it is to hold the power over what—and whom—we observe. Drawing on the visual language of wildlife photography, this portrait places the viewer in the position of observer, only to have that position unsettled by distinctly human eyes staring back. The gaze is reversed, collapsing the boundary between observer and observed and forcing us to question who has the power to look, who gets to represent, and who gets to be seen.
2023
Photograph
The portrait disrupts this imagined spectrum of tradition to modernity through textiles. On one side, the subject wears Johara, a North African handmade textile rooted in cultural tradition; on the other, denim—an emblem of mass consumption and Americana. Yet both exist on the same body. Tradition and modernity are not opposing ends of a linear journey, but coexisting ways of being. What appears to be a universal path to ‘modernity’ is, in fact, a Western vision of progress imposed as the norm
2024 ∞
Pop Art/Culture Jamming
Decolonize everything. Using a tongue-in-cheek approach blending pop art and culture jamming, the goal of this project is to turn a complex academic conversation into something immediate, accessible, and impossible to ignore. Because decolonization isn’t just a theory—it’s a question of what we choose to challenge, dismantle, and reimagine.
Decolonize what?
Everything.
The Revolutionary Fit turns the language of fashion into a language of protest. Bringing together garments, symbols and visual references from anti-colonial and liberation movements, the work imagines a wardrobe built from histories of resistance.
Getting dressed becomes an act of remembering, reclaiming and reappropriating.