IDEATION, RESEARCH, DESIGN, AUDIO/VISUAL
My Nails Tell A Story
A multimodal visual project produced from rigorous ethnographic research.
Film
My Nails Tell A Story (14:27), which premiered in Amsterdam, follows women in two Brooklyn nail salons. Using poetic visuals, the film explores the manicure as a site of artistry and embodied storytelling, where identity, care, and race intersect.
Interactive Zine
An experimental approach to zine making and theory, where I explored text, photography, and graphic design to merge scholarship and creative practice into an interactive zine.
Poetry
Challenging traditional ethnographic writing, this piece experiments with using verse to translate research into a more embodied, expressive form of knowledge and storytelling.