Greek Flags

March 2025-ongoing

When my yiayia Niki immigrated to the US, she found work as a seamstress, retiring in 2011 from her last role in an American flagmaking factory. Since then, I have inherited her industrial sewing machine and sewing notions. Above are experiments from an ongoing series exploring non-traditional and traditional methods of flagmaking. I am working with Greek flags and her tools as a way to pay homage to our country and her brilliant tenure as a craftswoman.

Photographed between New Jersey and Kalamata, Greece

Materials: antique handwoven linens, buoy rope, recycled canvas, rashguard scrap, glass beads, surf magazine cuttings, sand bag scrap, thread, deadstock 1970s French Air Force parachute nylon

Beach badges

Summer 2024-25

Graphic design for the seasonal beach badge, purchased and distributed to all Borough of Seaside Park beachgoers during the 2024 and 2025 bathing seasons.

Materials: airbrush, digital photography, Photoshop

Current jewelry

2021-2025

Materials: coins, chrysoprase, larimar, recycled glass beads, silk thread, vintage Afghan pendants, seashells, sea glass, shark teeth, stainless steel/sterling silver hardware

Images 21-23
Talent: @thezaya__, Photo: @thejoaquincastillo, Stylist: @indigoboydavid, Hair: @luisapopovic, Makeup: @marcoamazonico, Style Assist: @niiupak

Images 19-20
Talent: @ashbygentry, Photo: @chainreynolds, Stylist: @indigoboydavid, Hair: @daniel.lutz.hair, Makeup: @el__debratto, Style Assist: @ashley__luna, Editor in Chief: @pabloaragon, Publication: @folie.magazine

City Looks Pretty / Out of The City and Down to The Seaside

November 2023

Select spreads from an editorial shoot and hand-bound zine reframing the idea of Manhattan as an island.

Model: Rachel Barnfield
Words: Courtney Barnett, Joni Mitchell

Materials: cotton thread, digital photography, laser print

Crazy from The Heat (undergraduate thesis)

Spring 2024

“Crazy from the Heat” is an upcycled surfwear collection responding to the exploitation of the surfwear industry, as it relates to commercialism and the climate crisis.

Photo: Gabi Dinkova
Models: Allie Frank, Dani Rocco, Rachel Barnfield

Materials: recycled plastic sequins, second-hand surfwear, airbrush, out-of-circulation coins, seashells, shark teeth, recycled glass beads, thread, St. Christopher pendants, vintage Afghan pendants, stainless steel/sterling silver hardware

Making Kin

October 2023

Compostable woven cover-up made with the understanding that in compost (and in death), species begin to relate and create kin closely.

Materials: nettle, seashells

“..it's about companioning. It's about being in company with, being at table with. And in compost, we're at table with, including those who will return us to the Earth in our dying. I like the word 'compost' because it includes living and dying. If you're in compost, the questions of finitude and mortality are prominent, not in some kind of depressive or tragic way, but those who will return our flesh to the Earth are in the making of compost.” Donna J. Haraway

Shelleducation

December 2023

Pocket-sized zine indexing most found species while beachcombing, as surveyed with 39 individuals.

Materials: laser print, vellum

The Things We Carry

December 2022

UV-dyed silk scarves with images of family objects and photos; a concise way to hold onto possessions in moments of transit.

Materials: sun, UV-reactant dye, silk scarves

Untitled (collage)

February 2026, September 2025, April 2025

Materials: archive photos, canvas board, magazine clippings, matte medium, shark teeth, recycled mesh