Essays
The Essays
Long-form writing at the intersection of architecture, place, motherhood, and the practice of seeing. Always intentional. Always from the inside.
Latest Essay · Documentary · June 2026
The Art of Sister(hood)
On The Art of Sister(hood) at ThirtyThree Gallery in Las Vegas — what a space documents back, and what sisterhood looks like when it becomes the room itself.
Read the essay →Stepping Into the Frame
On June 3rd, 2026 — the first full day I'd had to myself since before my son was born — I drove three minutes from home, set up a tripod, and stepped into my own frame.
Sister Dreamer: Lauren Halsey's Architectural Ode To Tha Surge N Splurge Of South Central
On Lauren Halsey's Sister Dreamer, the frequency of 23, and what it means to mother and document in the same breath — shot on a Minolta SRT-101 on 35mm film.
He Doesn't Know He's in the Frame. That's Why He Belongs There.
On photographing Azulu — what a two-year-old brings to a documentary practice without knowing it, and why his presence in the work is not incidental.
Motherhood in Motion
Some seasons feel loud. This one — inside Casa Gilardi, in Mexico City — felt luminous. On beauty after grief, and mothering while becoming.
Casa Gilardi — A Study in Light, Color, and Stillness
Luis Barragán's masterwork doesn't rush to reveal itself. Neither do the people who move through it slowly enough to understand.
A Study in Light and Stillness
Frank Gehry's Lou Ruvo Center — experienced for the first time not from a distance, but up close, in stillness, with my son beside me.
A Colorful Design Sanctuary in La Condesa
On the apartment in Mexico City where Azulu and I lived briefly — and what it means to feel genuinely at home in a place you've just arrived.
