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I am an artist and educator based in Amsterdam whose work examines how chronic illness meets the medical industry. I focus on DIY and open-source medical tools that expose fragilities in systems of care and question dominant ideas of expertise.

Objective: These tools reveal how sick and disabled people navigate medical authority by creating their own forms of knowledge. I aim to show how living with chronic illness confronts how race, ableism, and institutional structures shapes access to care. I look at safety as a complex and situated practice shaped by lived experience.

Method: By combining artistic research with participatory workshops, I use speculative prototypes, audio/video work and writing to trace the social and political conditions in which DIY medical solutions emerge and to understand ways that Crip communities create models of care that support sick and disabled people, such as myself.

Conclusion/Results: My research brings artistic practice, DIY medical knowledge, lived experience into one shared space. It aims to build alliances between art, care, and medicine.