Meet Me (Maya).

She/Her

My work is guided by a North Star: the feeling of belonging.

Not belonging as an abstract idea, but as a felt experience—the moment when the nervous system softens, breath deepens, and the body’s many systems fall into quiet cooperation. That rare and precious sense of being at home inside oneself.

For much of my life, belonging felt elusive. There was always a subtle misalignment, a sense of almost—but not quite—fitting. I’ve wondered whether this feeling traveled through ancestral memory, emerged from personality, or was shaped by the experience of being a multi-ethnic Black woman born and raised in Los Angeles. Whatever its origin, the longing itself became my compass. Belonging became my North Star—not as a destination already reached, but as a state worth imagining into being.

My artistic practice explores what happens on the journey toward that state.

The work often takes the form of interdisciplinary installations activated by live performance and theater, tracing the path of a character who moves from constant performance in daily life toward integration and wholeness. These works draw from ancestry, embodiment, sound, and ritual, inviting audiences to participate, witness—and feel—the transition from survival to presence.

At other times, my work becomes trauma-informed, data-informed curriculum, designed to create emotionally and physically safe spaces for children. Here, art operates as infrastructure—quietly reshaping how learning environments feel in the body.

Sound is a recurring collaborator in my practice. I create sound ecologies—immersive auditory environments that honor the stories of performers and viewers alike. These soundscapes live within dance, installation, and communal experience, supporting nervous system regulation and opening pathways to embodied change.

Across all forms, the intention remains consistent: to restore rhythm, to soften vigilance, and to invite the body back into trust.

My work is not about arriving at belonging once and for all.

It is about practicing it.

Each project is an act of return— an embodied  homecoming.

A reminder that belonging can be built, sensed, and shared.