I (They/He) am a scenic focused, first year MFA candidate at The University of Texas at Austin. While my emphasis is in scenic design, I consider myself an artist in many regards. Loathe to restrict myself, I hold talents in digital illustration and writing, as well as a background in singing, dancing, acting, and directing. I am dedicating my time at UT to the expansion of my skill sets in all regards, recently taking on work in the electrician’s field, with a focus on practical fixtures.
As a young, queer, and biracial artist, I strive to center connection and community in their art, activism, and overlap of the two.

Theatre has defined my life, so it has become my art form. Since childhood I have expanded from performance and delved into every aspect of the medium- as well as outside of it in my passion for digital illustration, collaborative writing, and character design- though I have found a great passion in recent years in scenic design. While the medium of scenic design has particularly struck my fancy with the freedom in what can be made physical on a stage, I refuse to call myself solely a scenic designer. There is little use I find in confinement, even less so when it comes to the form of my creative practice. 

Art is my most practiced form of expression, when words jumble and slide over thoughts, an image or note or movement comes to mind much more easily. So it becomes even more important to me for my practice to speak to something larger than myself. As a queer Asian-American artist, I cannot avoid being a part of larger conversations and in fact I welcome it. If theatre is my voice then I have to lead it cause, make it part of my resistance. I am radical in self and therefore radical in my art. I hope to bring as much of myself as I can stand into every project I produce and every theater I step into.