A white hand holding an iPhone playing a video. The video shows a house after a flood. Furniture is piled high on the front lawn. An American flag is hanging on the front of the house.

The Word Is Not Lucky is a body of video and photo-based works that processes the flooding of my parent's home during a hurricane and my grandfather's passing two years earlier through an unlikely coincidence. Both events happened on my birthday, August 27.

Video still of a white woman wearing a red and white horizontally striped shirt. On her forehead is a white card that has the phrase "Time is Money" printed on it. Her chin is rested on clasped hands. Her elbows are resting on a white brick wall.

Time is Money is an experimental, virtual intervention into social media advertising that retools targeted ads as public art.

Video still of white hands with black nail polish holding a VHS tape of the film "Reality Bites." The back of the VHS tape is visible in the right corner.

Reality Bites is a body of work that uses a VHS copy of the 1994 film Reality Bites as a point of origin for video, installation, and photo-based works.