Visual Art
What started as a way to reclaim my own truth…
What harms can we expose from the Google Terms of Service, what liberation can we find among the Amazon Leadership Principles, and what can we learn about self-love from a marriage officiant script?
These pieces are more than making statements; they enable me to find my own truths and invite others to question what stories they can tell. I specifically lean into tech and corporate pieces and draw on my 13 years of experience in tech companies. While I primarily use paper or magazines, methods for erasure varies depending on the content (e.g. “blackout” using pen, post-its, lipstick, ??).
Valentine’s Day self-love messages hidden within the Health, Beauty, and Nutrition “advice” of Woman’s World magazine
As part of Stem and Story’s Rebloom flower subscription for the month of February 2026, I created self-love Valentine’s Day messages by cutting out and rearranging words from Woman’s World magazine, taking phrases like “Walk Off A Meno Belly,” and deciding which part, if any, can stay.
From Stem and Story:
“I fell in love with this idea of found collage poems just as soon as she proposed it. I knew the message was right (and timely for the Valentine’s season, with all its commercialized and loaded messages about what love should be and should look like): let’s take toxic messages from impossible beauty standards and let’s reimagine them, reshape them to fit us. We are beautiful. We define beauty. We deserve the enduring beauty of self-acceptance and self-love, first and foremost.”
Erasure and found poetry, especially from commonly known source material, makes poetry more accessible to those who wouldn’t normally read poems. Making writing more approachable is something I’m particularly passionate about, and how to use different forms to invite non-poets into the space of reflection, play, and finding their own truths.
Local Installations
Push/Pull’s Annual Poetry and Art Show
Reading of “Principles,” two erasures of the Amazon Leadership Principles
Common Area Maintenance (CAM)’s Member Showcase
“Principles” (two erasures of the same Amazon Leadership Priniples text) was displayed on the wall, included in the risograph poetry anthology, and I gave a reading at opening night
In addition to “Principles,” this showcase included an erasure from Google Terms of Service that shows how often the words “follow,” “permission,” and “comply” are used — and the nearby text that accompanies it
Let’s find the truth together!
Interested in erasing or revealing your own narrative? Let’s take that rejection email, corporate doc, the article your mom shared that makes you cringe — and find a new story within it!
I’m open to commission-based work where you supply the source text, and any ideas you have for re-writing the message (but not required).