I create text based installations, custom vinyl works, prints, research-based visual essays, textile banners, neon works, drawings, public performances, and narrative short videos. Research and contextual writing are a crucial part of my work as an artist.

Often emphasizing text and typography, my works juxtapose past and present demands for better working and living conditions. Using the language of movements for social and economic justice, I recreate and reinterpret materials (like posters, broadsheets, placards, calls to action) and collective actions (like pickets, strikes, rallies, and gatherings). The International Ladies Garment Workers Union, which successfully fought for and won some of the most significant historical gains for garment workers in the US, has been an important source for many of my works.

Words and concepts like Union, Collective, Support, Joining, and Standing With recur across my works, emphasizing the need for collective structures and mutual support. Individual works often build upon one another and connect across multiple forms and installation strategies. Phrases can recur in multiple works and in different media, building on previous iterations and forms. For example, In Union We Are Strong is used in a neon drawing, a textile banner, and a sited installation; We/Workers Mourn Our Losses is used in a research-based visual essay, a textile banner, a drawing, and a public performance.

I began creating work under the larger title and framework of New Demands? in 2011, one hundred years after the International Ladies Garment Workers Union was created. New Demands? originated in response to attacks on organized labor and workers' rights, adopting the language of hard won demands for better working conditions —primarily in the garment industry— that are being systematically terminated. New Demands? (2011–present) has expanded over time to include demands by gig workers and adjunct faculty, and by movements for racial justice, bodily autonomy, and trans liberation.

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