Selected Projects

Spring Moon Design (2024-Present)
Founder and Creative Director of a design studio uniting ecology, craftsmanship, and storytelling. Based between New York and Berlin, Spring Moon Design curates limited art and design collections and develops public programs connecting artists, artisans, and audiences around universal aspects of the relationship between human material culture and nature.

Moss: A Love Story (2025)
Writer, Editor, and Illustrator of an artist’s book exploring resilience and interconnection through the natural history and cultural symbolism of moss. The project extends into cross-disciplinary collaborations with sound artists, weavers, and ceramicists around the globe.

Mentorship and Refugee Engagement (2024-Present)
Tutor and mentor for Afghan asylum seekers in Berlin. Led creative writing workshops on “Finding Home,” combining storytelling, language, and creative expression to help participants reclaim narrative agency.

4.5 Hours (2015-2019)
Performance art project in which I stood in public spaces and swept a rug continuously for 4.5 hours, the global average amount of women’s unpaid daily domestic labor. What is ordinarily private and invisible became a deliberate, public act, revealing the quiet, unrecognized labor that underpins domestic and civic life. Presented in Berlin, Germany and Salt Lake City, Utah; documentation and artifacts acquired by the Mormon Feminist Art Collection at Brigham Young University.

Sweat Equity (2017)
A companion to 4.5 Hours, for this piece I transformed my own sweat-stained t-shirts into historical documents, tracing rings of sweat emanating from the armpits in black Sharpie and labeling them “Not-So-Hidden-Labor.”

NY Elegy (2016)
Endurance performance and film documenting a 32-mile walk around the perimeter of Manhattan wearing a modified “I ♥ NY?” t-shirt and an orange jumpsuit—symbols of labor and confinement. The camera, fixed on my feet, traced each step as a meditation on work, persistence, and belonging in a city built on invisible effort. Later set to an original score that echoed Sinatra’s version of “New York, New York,” juxtaposing the myth of success with the reality of precarity and exhaustion.

The Gerry Project (2015-2017)
Urban oral-history project tracing immigrant-owned one-story shops once illustrated by artist James Gerry in 1990s Manhattan. Combined field photography, interviews, and essays to explore belonging and displacement in the changing city. Essays on the project published in Vanishing New York and The Upper West Sider.

Doctoral Research: “The Cold War Traveler” examined the intertwined histories of architecture, tourism, and political ideology in Cold War Berlin (PhD, NYU, 2011), laying the foundations for later work linking design, memory, and civic experience.