Projects
Stars Don’t Die
Stars Don’t Die is an artist-led platform I founded in 2022 to channel sarcoma awareness into a living archive of expression. Born from personal loss, grief, and dislocation, it emerged in response to the profound transformations that young people undergo when confronted with critical thresholds in their lives. As someone who has lived through such a threshold, I felt it was essential to open a space where these experiences could be explored, revealed, and held, while also actively championing sarcoma awareness within the community.
Stars’ presence spans cultural programming such as art exhibitions and live music performances, as well as more intimate, dialogic forms of engagement that explore the emotional, social, and existential nuances surrounding sarcoma and the critical thresholds it marks in young lives.
Stars Don’t Die is a non-profit initiative. All funds raised support ongoing work and are donated to the Australia and New Zealand Sarcoma Association.
The Saddest Birthday Dinner
A digital curatorial work I created exploring the impossibility of perfect expression and the beauty of collective misunderstanding. Born from the struggle to write a eulogy that could never fully capture a lost love, this project transforms personal grief into a collaborative system that embraces incompleteness rather than demanding coherence.
The work takes the form of a live lyrical essay where visitors can edit any sentence, continuously reshaping the narrative for those who follow. Each change overwrites the previous version, creating an ever-shifting text that embodies the instability of meaning itself. Rather than trying to preserve or control interpretation, the project asks: how can we live with incomplete expression and still stay connected?
Set to launch on my 30th birthday as both timestamp and temporal wound, The Saddest Birthday Dinner operates as an open table where strangers can sit and alter the story being told.
Read full essay here.