V (they/them) is an interdisciplinary multimedia artist, ritualist, and poet-philosopher residing in the liminal spaces of New Orleans.

They do not believe in nouns as fixed objects. Still, the ones most often offered to them include witch, mystic, and philosophic smart-ass (take your pick, or try all three).

Verbs tend to be more useful. V's practice moves between scholarship and artistic experiment, exploring how language, myth, grief, and ritual shape the ways we become who we are. Rooted in literature, esotericism, relational ontology, and philosophical inquiry, they develop installations, films, performances, and writing that investigate how aesthetic experience can transform the ways people attend, relate, and imagine together.

A graduate of the Religious Studies Master's program at Rice University, V brings together continental philosophy, literary analysis, psychoanalytic theory, and mystical traditions as materials for artistic inquiry. Their projects explore how bodies are shaped by time and power, how suffering becomes form, and how ceremony, atmosphere, and poetic structures create conditions for ethical reciprocity.

At the center of this work is a commitment to imagination as a transformative force. Each project asks how artistic experience might cultivate new possibilities for relation, collective attention, and becoming.

Outside the studio, V tends their garden, wanders the city in search of textures and stories, and is often found sharing a couch with a book and their cats.

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