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 · Architecture · Joshua Tree, CA
Monument House
On living inside a building designed to make you look, and what happens when the architecture turns your own documentary practice back on you.
Read the essay →A Las Vegas Elopement
On the quiet responsibility of witnessing another person's beginning, Courtney and Derrell's elopement at The Little White Chapel, shot on 35mm film.
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.
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.
