My practice is based in the research of time, the idea of perfection, performance, dependence, and liberation. These are only a small sample of words that come up when I'm working and — as with most words — their searchable definitions are vague and have needed more consideration. By questioning what these words mean to me, I continue the difficult practice of understanding my identity. Definitioning has become a big part of my work, which I define as the action of definition.

Currently (winter 2025) my work has been focused on the remediation of traditional working materials. The results have led to a few questions like, “what is an image?”, “what is invisible in a printed photograph?”, “what possibilities are present with material changes?”, or “where are you within the work?”

As a child, I experienced neglect both in my family as well as systemically, via poverty and the education system. As an adult, I was recently diagnosed ASD 1 and ADHD inattentive in 2022, which are typically considered comorbidities. I am working on definitioning how these experiences merge for me, which is one way I utilize learning as a tool for healing and identity researching.

I’m influenced by community building, mutual aid, realness, kindness, journalism, story telling, and simplicity. Another current actioning of my work has been experimenting with editing and conciseness, leaving room for the big and small layers of meaning that make up a completed work. Naming has become murky in 2025 and while I am in a practice traditionally associated with art making, and being an artist, I am more interested in the actioning of the process of work. When people ask what I do, I’ve been comfortable saying that “I am working.” As my communities grow and change, the work shifts.

My practice has changed a lot in the past year and the work continues to open up. I’ve become less dependent medium, plants and ritual have become essential to unlearning the myths embedded in the dependence of corporations and the systemic. I’ve learned that image, as it currently stands, is limited because of our obsession with images, as well as with how images are defined.

I am researching how to heal my frayed understanding of myself, while also considering how the personal and the systemic can be dissected and remediated together.

billy (they/them)