Glass beads function as an external husk - delicate, repetitive, and organized. Through stringing them together with a needle and thread, I ritualize the process of hormone replacement therapy. The material’s fragility and labor intensive construction transforms daily acts and ideas into something ceremonial, adding weight, time, and intention into something otherwise internal. The material becomes a physical milestone for my transness, a way to externalize and honor time and health.

Injecting my hormones in my tshirt, jean shorts, and glass slippers.

Cinematography: Rosalina Michele

Drawing up my estrogen, with my glass bandage around my neck.

Cinematography: Rosalina Michele

Touch this material and it will be cold.

Hold this material and it will be warm.

It’s about building something from nothing.

Glass Quilt, 2024

Each swatch is an assembly of peyote stitched glass beads, connected by needle and thread. Although materialized for color testing for a larger scale thesis project, I loved how they linked on their own. I feel the process of working with this material is much like quilt making, both mediums having unpredictable qualities, forcing you to adapt to the form you are left with as you build it.

The quilt has been a vehicle in truly understanding the full intent and influence of the larger scale idea. While being an important physical development in this project, it also feels like a significant piece of a more intangible, unfolding visualization.