CHERISHING

****taking part, everyday****

THINKING&FEELING

CHERISHING

ADORNING

WRITING

DESIGNING&PRODUCING

LISTENING

WONDERING

WATCHING

BEING

Artworks of different mediums that seek to cherish and hold dear the culture that I encounter, thinking about fandom and devotion and proximity and imagined closeness!

December 28, 1895, 5x7cm

Alyssa Liu we <3 you, 14.8x21cm

Yellow, 21x29.7cm

‘I want to thank you for letting me see myself, I want to thank you for letting me be myself’ 90x60cm (video with audio from concert documented in image)

tine, 21x29.7cm

his smile took over the screen, 21x29.7cm

I love da movies, 21x29.7cm

REM, that’s me in the corner, 21x29.7cm, four collage

southbank, 10cm x10cm

thank you Langston, 21x29.7cm

thinking of Nomadland, 21x29.7cm

cotton candy lollipops from cybercandy, 21x29.7cm

fear morphs into something else, 21x29.7cm

uptown girls, I love being in town, 21x29.7cm

A great day to be in Harlem, 21x29.7cm

it feels so good to draw around your own hand, 21x29.7cm

camera roll glimmers, 21x29.7cm

Lana we love you, 21x29.7cm

sometimes you get a glimpse of what everyone you know now would have been like as children and that is magic, 21x29.7cm

hot nerds, 21x29.7cm

Karen O-Crush Songs hell yeah, 10x10cm

I scanned in my whole sketchbook that I made whilst thinking about cherishing, about what it means to celebrate and to collage with more love and less fear-it was an exercise in returning to a visual language of mine with a different attitude and a relaxing back into it!

This was commissioned by Watershed/Cinema Rediscovered in 2023 as part of their video critic programme and ended up as a basis for my book published by Worms in 2025, under the same name. The film uses clips from the movies screened as part of the festival in 2023, exploring how to recreate the emotional experience of domestic entrapment. Clips included are from Drylongso, Jeanne Dielman, Midnight Cowboy, Millennium Mambo and The Virgin Suicides. The score is an original piece by myself, using some sections from the films as an emotional collage.

The full research list used to inspire my debut poetry collection is included on the ‘wondering’ page of my website but this is a short film I made for the promo of the book referencing a few of the works on the list.

This is a recording of one of the poems in the book using clips from the aforementioned list. Shout out to The Bear, I will love you forever.

It is a research film made in 2020 exploring the ideas of collective power and action against patriachal and colonial forces. It is made up of many clips that I use and return to for inspiration within my own practice and life.

This film was commissioned by Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool in 2020. It was made as a response to the lack of access to dancefloors due to lockdown and is made up of clips digitially collected by myself of old and new friends made in this time. It was streamed during an online launch for the film and had a discord that ran alongside the screening, like some kind of digital smoking area to have a gossip and convene however we could.