Storytelling is at the heart of my practice and stems from an interest in the intersections of creative inquiry with social science research. I make work about coincidences, the formation of unlikely communities and connecting with strangers. Borrowing from anthropology, narrative filmmaking and information design, I use video as a documentary tool to construct bodies of knowledge about groups of people and my interactions with them. My goal is to bring communities together who wouldn't otherwise meet and to draw connections, map patterns and reveal portraits of human lives. I invite the viewer to interact directly with my work through installations, physical archives and other emergent systems.

My Appalachian upbringing informs much of my recent work and serves as a point of departure for me to experiment between the imperfect crafted object and the sleek artifice of digital media. Humor and play are modes through which I address cultural taboos and stereotypes associated with a rural American identity. Through these visual experiments I am questioning how film and video have impacted outsider perspectives of Appalachia versus what stereotypes remain embedded since national news media first visited the region.