Confluence 2023 - Present

Confluence, explores the intersection of medical history, geography, and politics. With the 2022 overturn of Roe V. Wade, I turn to the landscape as a metaphor for the dire need for change. The 2,340-mile-long Mississippi River, flowing from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico, loops and curls through regions marked by over a century of struggle for medical freedom. Beneath the beauty of the south's topography lies a painful legacy defined by the historic kidnapping and torture testing of women to develop medical instruments such as the Sims speculum. 139 years later, such tools and procedures are still used today, as many communities defined by the Mississippi River continue to fight for human rights. 

Beginning in 2022 with an experimental paper quilt, Confluence expanded into a large mixed-media exhibition opening at the Center For Visual Art Denver on November 1, 2024. The show featured a series of five paper quilts, a twelve-foot tall porcelain installation of the Mississippi River, four slip-casted speculums, and an upholstered speculum swing.