This Should Have a Title is a silent video performance in which the artist writes and tears up notecards bearing internalized scripts like “always wear makeup” and “my home must be clean before anyone can come over.” Played in reverse, the actions become gestures for unlearning. Rooted in the artist’s upbringing among four sisters and a mother involved in beauty pageants, the work reflects on how ideals of beauty, perfection, and emotional labor are absorbed over time. The quiet erasure of these phrases becomes an act of resistance—a gesture toward undoing inherited expectations and reclaiming self-definition.

-- 2023