Much of my work is concerned with exploring the hidden history of mental health and madness in the Western world, with a focus on the contradictions and injustices purposefully or apathetically obscured from historic accounts and narratives. I understand this history to be a form of erasure. One tool I use to engage in such exploration is erasure/blackout, a technique that uses a pre-existing text and excavates or reveals a poem by scoring out or otherwise obscuring certain portions of that text, while simultaneously preserving others. I’ve engaged in this methodology with communities around the globe, including with youth in Lagos, Nigeria; with performance activists in Thessaloniki, Greece; with teaching artists in Oslo, Norway; and with psychiatric survivors across the United States and Canada. I'm currently working with filmmaker Heather Cassano to document remaining state hospital cemeteries across the U.S. using film, performance art, and spoken word poetry.