I’m a feminist artist exploring chronic illness, memory, and care through ritual, image, and intimate material culture.

My work centers the lived experience of autoimmunity through still life, object study, and quiet observation. I document the choreography of care in domestic spaces—what we keep close, the rituals we develop, and how objects become extensions of the body.

My current project, A Nightstand Still Life, is a yearlong self-portrait told through weekly photographs of my nightstand. It captures the shifting rituals and emotional topography of everyday life with illness. I’m asking what my objects are trying to tell me—about grief, comfort, protection, and healing.

I have shared work in community art spaces, digital galleries, and public radio. I’ve spoken and written about feminist embodiment, ritual aesthetics, and the material language of chronicity. I believe in small rituals, slow art, and the transformative intelligence of domestic space.

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Current Project

A Nightstand Still Life

A slow self-portrait, made through objects in use.

 
 

Selected Public Work

Exhibitions

  • The Nightstand Collective and ablezine, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

  • Acts of Repair and Healing, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham

  • Chronicles of the Chronic, Rochester Art Center, Rochester


The Nightstand Collective, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2018)
(Photo courtesy of V&A Museum, photography by Hydar Diwachi)

 
 

Press and Features

  • Island, Selfish Ghosts, by Heather Taylor Johnson, (2022)

  • Esse, Kept Awake: My Text is a Nightstand is a Text for You, by Huberland and Pilon, (2022)

  • Disability Arts Online, The Nightstand Collective: bed artists revealing telling aspects of their lives. (2022)

  • Ablezine Magazine, by Elizabeth Rookledge, (2021)

  • Blanketsea, The Nightstand Collective, (2019)

  • Medium, Howling at the Moon: Six Interviews with artists who redefine illness and disability, (2019)

  • The Mighty, Emma Jones Creates: The Nightstand Collective to give an intimate look at chronic illness, (2017)

  • Mashable, Photo’s of Nightstands Empowers People with Chronic Illness, (2016)

  • Huffington Post UK, Photo’s Shine a Light on Those Living with Chronic Illness, (2017)