My work traces how images function not only as representations, but as systems that shape perception, memory, and behavior. Drawing from images in the deep storage of my digital archive, I consider how memory, family, and technological systems overlap and shape everyday experience.

The more my relationships with family faded, the more their images algorithmically resurfaced from the deep storage of the cloud. I began to view these images, with all their longing and intimacy, as a kind of digital haunting. Using photographs of my family and early life in Southern California from the 1980s to the early 2000s, I examine how memory is continually reshaped by images and the systems that organize them.

My practice moves between installation, video, and digital fabrication. Increasingly, I work with 3D printing and UV printing as ways of understanding how images are translated, degraded, and reconstituted through technological systems. In my sculptural work, photographs are converted into 3D forms and then digitally printed back onto their surfaces. The image becomes both picture and structure—parsed, layered, and reshaped by machines.

Printing errors, sometimes caused by me and sometimes by the machine, have become an important part of this process. Rather than treating these failures as mistakes, I use them to disrupt the previous logic of the image and create new possibilities for interpretation. These errors reveal the distance an image has traveled and the digital and analog infrastructures holding it up.

Family photographs that once felt fixed and fragile, anchored to albums before being scanned and uploaded to cloud storage, now move through slicing software, deposition commands, and iterative reproduction. In the process, they become procedural. I treat the image as both material and infrastructure—something that holds memory in place while continually transforming it.

My work considers how images structure relationships, mediate cultural inheritance, and shape how we experience loss, survival, and the possibility of change.