My work explores how people and institutions [read: Conservatives, Evangelicals, Christian Nationalists, MAGA, etc.] weaponize the bible and religion to justify their own [hateful] agendas and quests for power, oppression, and control. Trained as a graphic artist and a teen in the fraught 1980s (with its blurred line between art and activism), my work is at the same time a call to arms to fight religious persecution and an emblem of personal liberation.

I use various materials and media to seal a physical bible shut forever, preventing those who use it nefariously to further oppress women, queer people, immigrants, and other minorities. Shutting down the shame, guilt, and expectations associated with queerness, sexuality, and gender — bi-products of non-consensual baptimization into a religion that is often not in-line with one’s own being. Discovering the power that comes with defining one’s own morality/spirituality, if any, and — claiming as one's own — dignity, freedom, authenticity, sex positivity, bodily autonomy, and radical self-acceptance.

Before I seal each bible shut, I leave the bookmark on a passage that speaks to social justice, non-judgmentalness, compassion, unconditional love, etc. as a way of forever preserving the eminence and radicality of the true message of Jesus (if he indeed existed) — to love thy neighbor, to not sit in judgement, to walk with the outcasts, to do unto others, and on and on.