A whore is a whore is a whore


2024–ongoing







This is a body of work which begins through an ongoing archive of makeup remover wipe “prints” that I make from my face. In these performances, I hang these images from two lines, which are pinned to my temples with needles. My face is smeared with white paint.

This is documentation from the third iteration of this performance, developed at the workshop Constellations of Critical Bodies. The hanging makeup remover wipe prints extended from this grassy lawn through the open door and into the main building where the performances were held. I lingered in this frozen tableau, buried up to my neck in the dirt. As I emerge from the ground in my high femme stilettos and lingerie, I take off my underwear and reveal my genitals to the audience, which I shaved and decorated with mirror stickers like for a disco ball.





The name of this piece, which has occurred in several different iterations, is taken from a 1986 trial in which a Pasadena court judge dismissed charges for the violent rape of a prostitute on the grounds that, as he wrote, “a whore is a whore is a whore.” This performance seeks to render visible the imperceptible violence underneath systems of power, by letting it leak out of my body at the point of the piercing.



 
 


Working girl



in collaboration with MJ Tom
photo by Riven Ratanavanh


2025

installation as part of group exhibition Proxy Chimera Oracle




double or nothing



video (4:10)




Through this series of works leading up to my thesis show at CalArts, I entered a process of collaboration with my mother, Claire.




receiver


works including installation, performance, video, text

2025


photo by Siqi Fan
photo by Claudia Thyrone
The exhibition featured two video works and an installation where I used chalk to mark the floors and walls of the space. These markings were diagrams where I attempted to make sense of our relationship through psychoanalytic theory. Texts that informed this research are scattered around the room.

The show closed with a 7-hour durational performance. For this length of time, I attached a rice paper screen to my temples. The screen hangs from lines that anchor in my skin. My gaze is bound to this projection of an image of my mother, my double. Here, I became the receiver for care that was “missed.” Returning to some unknown need or wish that was not met in childhood (mine or hers). Readdressing the wound.





Mark me mark me mark me



works including video, installation, prints


2024


photo by Jake Thornton
video by Jessica Perez


“Lubricating this arcane luxury”
– Cassandra Troyan, Freedom and Prostitution

A stack of twenty dollar bills given to me by my mother, printed in my blood, takes flight in this installation. This work is made in collaboration with Kassandra Sparks, MJ Tom, and Jessica Perez.




When I look at you, I see me


body of work including collaborative durational lock-ins
video piece (6:56)


2024





Exploring edge play and heartbreak in collaboration with MJ Tom, this film tests the limits of intimacy through a sadomasochistic two-day lock-in.

Untitled Polaroid series



2021–ongoing






My current art practice comes out a persona that often exceeds the category of work. These excesses become creative material: I keep binders of all the envelopes that she receives money in, I take Polaroid photos of the trash can after her sessions, and I archive her face with makeup remover wipe “prints.” I find this other body in my body fascinating: a hyper-sexualized and -racialized performance, a site for fantasy and projection.



Marriage



2019–ongoing


Photo by Ephrain Gonzalez

These images document one of many wedding rituals in my marriage of queer friendship with Kassandra Sparks, marked by dramatic and hedonistic rituals of devotion celebrated in leather and whore community. 




Photo by Ephrain Gonzalez 
Photo by Eli Daar



in collaboration with Kassandra Sparks
surgery performed by MJ Tom


© 2026