I am an artist, researcher, poet and shapeshifter working on the intersection of body and language. Through examining their abilities to simultaneously admit and exclude, I hope to uncover counternarratives while still acknowledging these exclusions as inseperable from violence. Yet, a story of survival can still be told. By departing from mythology, folklore and oral histories, I situate ancestral traditions in contemporary urban life. My work desires to re-suture narratives of classification. Currently, I’m investigating the revival, reclamation and (re)inscription of traditional tattoo practices as a practice of decolonisation and engage in semi-fictional narratives as a mode of critical speculation. They reveal themselves in performances, installations and poetry, though morphing into many more forms.