The Stanford Neurodiversity Summit is happening this week and I am very honored that The Latest Video Photobook Tour is being featured in the artist montage at the 7th annual Stanford Neurodiversity Summit, taking place September 19–21, 2026, at Stanford University and online. This year’s theme is “Building Strengths through Neurodiversity Innovation.”
My art video featuring The Latest will be included in the Summit’s Art Montage, shown each day from: 11:35 a.m.–12:35 p.m. Pacific Time. If you are there, please take a moment to check out the work of all of the artists.
'The Latest' is a photography and stop-motion series that explores the spectrum of my experience as a late-diagnosed autistic woman and the evolving process of creating order and expression. There is deep ritual in being neurodivergent, in processing hope for the future, the grief of a life passed by, and in accepting your unique traits while releasing internal and external ableism."
Through symbolic still lifes, taxonomical inventories, and ritualized release of internal and externalized abelism, the work explores neurodivergent ways of organizing the world. I began by creating what I call 'Monochromatic Calibrations', lining up objects by color to ground myself emotionally so I could explore the harder topics.
The first half of the book allows the viewer to engage with these images without titles or explanation, placing them into a pre-diagnosis space of searching for connection without context. As viewers look closer, they will find that tiny objects from the calibrations reappear as hidden 'easter eggs' within the larger narrative scenes, inviting them into a playful system of meaning-making.
Halfway through, the structure shifts. The book enters a dialogue pairing those same photographs with personal essays rooted in neurodiversity research. This transition brings the same reframing, understanding and acceptance that a late diagnosis brings to an autistic life.
For example, one of the initial images in the book is a burning paper quote that reads: 'I wish you hadn't told me.' Viewers often misinterpret this as my words said in grief, when it was actually said to me by someone else.
Rather than presenting autism as a deficit to be explained, 'The Latest' invites you to engage with an autistic perspective through the language of contemporary photography.
