In the Bay Area she worked alongside other artists as a member of the Firehouse Art Collective and was included in a show of Ai Weiwei's on Alcatraz.² She had adopted the name Empress Trash before entering crypto art, while living in a house near Oakland's I-80/580 interchange where people dumped trash nearby and she hosted large art parties.¹ Working with the glitch tool PhotoMosh, she found that some collectors dismissed the results as low effort, a reaction that helped spur the Trash Art movement she joined on entering the crypto art scene in 2021.^2,3 ROBNESS later credited her, alongside Max Capacity, as one of the artists leading the #TezTrash movement's charge on Tezos.⁴

She made Move On for the Vintage Glitch series shown in “Bad Glitches Only”, an exhibition presented by SuperChief and NFT Rome. She also runs Dumpster Palace, a project with its own Substack.⁵ In “The Pixel Generation”, a show organized by Unit London and Right Click Save, she showed the video works Memories Live On Forever and How Do You Feel Without alongside artists including eBoy, LoVid, Qian Qian, Kristen Roos and Ina Vare.^2,3 Her work, which explores femininity, consumerism and the subconscious, has been shown at venues including Sotheby's and Miami Art Basel,⁶ as well as SXSW in Texas.²