projects

html-garden

html-garden is a digital playground for experimenting with the limits of what the Internet can hold. It is a nostalgia-fueled passion project that continues to actualize concepts from my thesis website. I take apart and reassemble code and web materials I've found during my exploration of Neocities and the "old web", forming a melancholic online bedroom.

tumblr hauntology

Tumblr Hauntology was the first Neocities website I ever made, and serves as the website for my undergraduate thesis. I dissect Tumblr's legacy of queer Internet potential and break apart time and space in this autoethnography.

tara byte

Tara Byte is the drag persona I created in 2022 as a member of VC Royalty. She has performed on stage at Vassar College and Bacchus Restaurant in New Paltz, NY. Tara Byte is the featured artist of a 2024 documentary directed by Leon Moore, which has been selected for international festivals such as the IndieFEST Film Awards and the LGBTQ Unbordered International Film Festival.

Tara Byte performance at Vassar College, 2023.