My studio practice is interdisciplinary and seeks a balance between works that are personal and those that are activist in nature or done in service to communities. I am interested in how material objects and physical sites suspend, retain, age, corrode, or transmute over time, imbedding cultural and collective psychologies, values, histories, fiction, and activism. I externalize anxieties with our current political landscape through exploring my own peripheral attention and dream states that mirror cultural trauma and in public works that engage in the amplification of voices of those who are marginalized.

My intersectional identities of mixed race, queerness, and class are integrated and imbedded in the work. I am questioning the schism of personal and collective values and the psychological impact of slow erosions, like classism or invisibility. The ghosts we keep around and what we protect are evidenced in objects, actions, and in the stories we tell ourselves. Unexpected beauty, the emergence of the sacred object, the retelling of the narratives—these are tools of transformation and much of my work’s conceptual underpinnings.

Various public art projects engage directly with teaching, activism, and community groups, such as the residency at the Portland Children’s Museum, The Creative Center for Women Living with Cancer, and my 10 year entrepreneurship- Jennie Greene Designs, a floral design studio built from a shipping container.

My curatorial project Remaking the Monument: The Immigrant Story at Bush House Museum was open in June and July of 2022 at the Salem Arts Association Bush House Museum. This exhibition celebrates the extraordinary lives of immigrants and refugees living in Oregon today. Their presence in the museum brings new meaning to rooms haunted by the racist rhetoric and actions of Bush and other advocates of the exclusionary laws that define early Oregon history. They hold our gaze with strength and compassion, occupying spaces where differences were not allowed, where racism was fierce, and where abolitionists were disparaged, Their possessions challenge the notion of historical preservation. Their stories rouse our deepest stirrings of the American Dream. They inspire us by healing and leading communities and breaking glass ceilings.