UH Public Arts Project

Starship (2026)

Public Art UHS Billboard Commission — University of Houston

I wanted "Starship" to feel like a moment suspended between becoming and arrival. Like standing in the middle of a dream you worked for your whole life and finally realizing you made it there — but also realizing the journey changed you.

Growing up as a military child, I was always moving, always rebuilding my sense of home, identity, and self. A lot of my work comes from that feeling of searching for somewhere to land while still carrying ambition, imagination, and softness at the same time. In *Starship*, flight becomes emotional. The figures feel weightless, almost celestial, but they’re still human. They’re still longing.

The scale of the billboard mattered to me. I wanted the work to interrupt somebody’s day for a second. To create this cinematic pause in the middle of campus where people could look up and feel possibility, power, rest, transformation — all at once.

Being selected for the Public Art UHS billboard felt bigger than just displaying an image. It felt symbolic. Like a declaration that student artists deserve to take up space publicly, monumentally, unapologetically.

There’s something beautiful about seeing an intimate emotional world expanded to an architectural scale. That contrast sits at the center of the piece. "Starship" is about ascension, but it’s also about tenderness. It’s about carrying your inner world with you while learning how to rise.