V is an interdisciplinary artist working through sound, text, and performance to explore how time, grief, and relational ethics shape embodied experience. My practice centers on listening and voice as mediums for memory, transformation, and the persistence of the dead within shared narrative space. Combining audio composition, mythopoetic writing, interviewing, and ritual performance, I trace the thresholds where intimacy, representation, and creative becoming converge.

Education

Rice University, Houston, Tx   Graduation: May 2025 

• Majors: Religious Studies

• Concentration: Philosophy of Aesthetics, Ethics, and Media Studies

• Cumulative GPA: 4.0

• Thesis: Love Letters to Anne Carson: On Relational Ethics and Being with Time

Loyola University New Orleans, New Orleans, LA     Graduation: December 2017 

• Majors: Philosophy and Religion Studies - Graduated with honors

• Cumulative GPA: 3.5

• Member of the National Society of Leadership and Success

• Thesis: Buddhist Philosophy of Emptiness and its Implications in Linguistic Meta-Ethics

Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan                                                                                                                                                             Spring and Summer 2016

• Study Abroad Experience - One Semester

• Competence in basic Japanese

• Studied Asian Philosophy and Religion

Curation & Exhibitions

Undone, New Orleans, LA                                         January 10 - January 30 2026
Group Exhibition; Curator & Exhibiting Artist

• Works exhibited: photography, sound piece, zine

• Curated a group exhibition exploring rupture, incompletion, and undoing as aesthetic and ethical conditions.

slip [the instrumentality project], Houston, TX                                           April 13 2025
Group Exhibition; Exhibiting Artist

• Contributed sound work presented on KTRU Rice Radio.

• Work: Against Fixed Rep

Performances

ArcheTexture, Rice University                                                   October 10 2024
Sculptural Performance

• Performance exploring horizontal temporal webbing, material memory, and embodied structure.

Soaring Silence, Rice University                                               December 13 2024
Sculptural Performance

• Performance-installation structured as a speculative temple for negation and listening.

Fire & Performance Arts                                                       2011-2016
Public performances at festivals and club venues

• Including Voodoo Music + Arts Experience, Buku Music + Art Project, and an Alex Grey exhibition.

• Mediums: fire performance, movement-based performance.

Published Works and Media

Transformer                                                           Forthcoming 2026
Sound art journal

• Visual sound art contribution.

Khimaira                                                 July 2025 - Present
Podcast / Experimental Interview Series

• An artist-run audio and narrative platform that enacts a container for relational transformation and collective re-integration through sound, dialogue, and mythic reflection. Drawing from essays, intimate conversations, and ritualized sonic assemblage, the work unravels alienation not to erase pain but to shape it into communal sustenance, activating new modes of listening and being together.

Anime Tarot Deck & Guidebook, Insight Editions                                                      June 7 2022
Author of guidebook

• Conceptual tarot publication combining divination, narrative structure, and anime.

SaturnVox                                                         2020 - Present
Multimedia artistic platform

• SaturnVox is an artist-run platform founded in 2020 that has taken multiple forms, including divinatory practice and an educational podcast on magic (2021–2023).

• It now functions as an evolving archive and exhibition space for sound works, writing, visual projects, and curatorial experiments.

On Love                                                 November 29 2025
Zine 

• An experimental artist zine combining poetic writing, embodied theory, and sonic epistemology. The project reframes love as a practice of staying in relation through rupture, dissatisfaction, and grief, rejecting ideals of purity, goodness, or harmlessness. 

• Structured around listening rather than representation, the text treats pain as information and desire as a vibrational orientation toward aliveness, positioning the body as an instrument of ethical perception.

Ghostling                                                                         2016-2018
Poetry zine, 6 issues

• Curated and wrote poems for each issue and distributed them around New Orleans

• Themes include eros, transformation, and haunting.

Autobiography of a Halfling                                           November 29 2024 - Present
Ongoing blog and long-form writing project

• A sustained series of creative essays, poetic reflections, and conceptual writings that explore time, grief, relationality, and sound-informed poetics. Published via SaturnVox, the project combines photography, poetry, and theoretical inquiry in an open-ended framework that foregrounds listening, embodiment, and speculative thinking. 

Skills

Sound art & audio editing • Experimental interviewing • Performance & ritual work

Zine production • Curatorial practice • Writing as artistic method

Listening-based research • Sound-based epistemology • Multimedia publishing