Statement
statement
I am a liminal being constantly in a state of multiplicity and interstitiality. I am left hand dominant and ambidextrous, using both hands for a variety of tasks. I have lived with anxiety for most of my life, finding myself consumed by the past or future, rarely existing in the present. My body is both fat and not fat, I have never felt at ease with either word for neither really describes the space I occupy. I am bi and gender fluid, while I am in a long term relationship with a straight, cisgender man- the contradictions here are innumerable.
I’ve grappled with these core truths for the majority of my life. Once I saw them as my strengths - the beautiful parts of me that make me who I am - I began to see that I was making work about them all along.
With my world being full of the in between, my art occupies territories between the known and unknown. I create visual pieces, installations, experiences, and videos that splice together natural forms of the body and systems within nature that highlight the liminality of my own existence. These create an opportunity for my viewers to explore worlds that are at once familiar and unfamiliar in their design. They get the chance to feel what liminality is like- rich with interstices, ambiguity, and multiple states of being- and see the world through a beautiful bi lens.
My material approach consists of experiments with traditional art mediums and non traditional items- gelatin plastic, paint skins, mushroom paper clay, cornstarch-glue-paint lava, spray foam, natural bits like lichen and moss, interactive technology, digital imagery, and wooden panels cut in the shape of natural flora and fauna. I make unexpected worlds that allow the mind and body to wander into impossible realities filled with shadows, clusters, and hybridized bodies.
I aim to leave my viewers feeling curious, beguiled, uncomfortable, and uncertain- states I occupy on a regular basis.