This body of work centers on the live recording of energy transmissions seen through movement. The infrared camera is a witness transmitting the trajectory of movement in order to communicate beyond the specificity of language. The transmission is faithful, non-judgemental, and non-interpretive. I am interested in the ways in which physical impulses manifest into visible form as well as the tension between what is fleeting and what is captured.

For the next iteration of this research, I am proposing to explore and devise a creative digital-tool that generates visibility for undocumented domestic workers. After collecting data – both from digitally mapping workers’ routines and from gathering existing statistics – I will design an open-source creative “object” circulating freely on the internet. This project will work as a digital organism that not only presents in a user-friendly and humane shape the realities of undocumented workers but also provides, under anonymity, a user-generated space for the community to directly participate. This project is happening while the National Domestic Worker's Alliance is campaigning for Illinois Domestic Workers Bill of Rights and aims to customize the interface for a socially useful artistic product.