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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, discarded sails
Basking Shark
July 2026
My great-grandfather pictured with a basking shark he caught in Greece. Original photo captured on July 25th, 1977.
Materials: cyanotype, paper, sun
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
New Car Smell
June 2026
21” x 27” print of car fresheners I’ve collected over the years.
Materials: car air fresheners, giclee print
Dolphfriendship
May 2026
19” x 31” sail remnant inset with a cyanotype on silk. Printed texture from an old surfboard in a friend’s garage, dolphin pictures from a friend working in dolphin conservation.
Materials: cyanotype, recycled sail, sewing thread, silk
Marble Dolphin
June 2026
Carved on Naxos, Greece.
Materials: marble
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 surfwear industry exploitation, 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, silk scarves, UV-reactant dye
Untitled (collage)
Left: August 2026
Top: April 2025, April 2025
Bottom: September 2025, February 2026
Materials: archive photos, canvas board, magazine clippings, matte medium, shark teeth, recycled mesh