Pure Land (2023)

Builds a narrative around long distance conversations between a young Tibetan-American man and his Tibetan-born mother. The character, played by a friend of the artist, wanders through a natural landscape resembling the exiled homeland of his mother, taking photographs in an attempt to "find a frame that evokes a sense of belonging." The camera in these works is used as an instrument to reveal the impossibility for displaced Tibetan individuals to be seen in actual Tibetan landscapes. The sparse terrains in "Pure Land" were shot by the artist on the ancestral lands of the Blackfeet Tribe in Montana.