Generally, I start by observing the existing and popular narratives in my social spheres and media, and the pressures I face in my own life experiences. As someone who is "newly" trans, I am constantly thinking about what the dominant narratives are around transness, how my work can push against these narratives, and how it already falls into these traps.

I always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow.

I tend to focus less on genre as a starting point and more on idea or intention and let the idea dictate genre.

Making music has been connected to one of my greatest heartaches, because my own music has never quite connected with audiences. But it was this heartache that pushed me to explore other artistic avenues, like writing and filmmaking, and I ultimately feel most at home in a multidisciplinary environment.

I have been and continue to be committed to art as a tool to ignite, comfort, and discomfort.

It's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of the artist.

My art career often feels less like an art career and more like a career in educating, usually by using my body.