I make interactive pieces. I like to work with metaphors - experiential ones, systemic ones, affective ones. I feel an urgency and responsibility to remember, to document, and to play. My work dwells in nostalgia and disillusionment as a “parachute child,” of my memory and narrative at large. I use them as critical tools to fight the alienation in both physical and digital sites of home and the mental and emotional tolls they took on me, before I was even able to call them by name. I build 3D worlds to cradle myself in, surrounded by characters and emblems from a past time. I build walking simulators to evoke the same despondency I experience. I tell non-linear, interactive stories about a home I’m scared to return to. I invite people to sit with a self-conscious social investigation. To sit with a seemingly never-ending doom scroll. To sit with a deprivation of choice. But empathy is the meat. And in spite of my fears and traumas, I see memory as a malleable source for my interactive works, it becomes the bridge between real and re-imagined pasts + futures, and builds safe, albeit raw, spaces for reconciliation and the reconstruction of personal agency.