Body Spill
Double Sided Acrylic Paintings woven and mounted on a wire frame
58 x 38
2024
This piece is an exploration of the memory, complexity, and pain that comes with being in a body as a white, trans, chronically ill person. It is constructed from double sided paintings cut into strips affixed to a wire and paper base. Each painting represents a distinct memory, emotion, or sensation of my experience being in a body that has been transmuted through the making process. The paintings are cut apart to in a cathartic act of reckoning and liberation. They are then woven together into a more complex and integrated form, creating new layers of meaning. This piece is a living tome of processing the grief of the uncontrollable nature of the body. It is an invitation to transmute the pain of embodiment into freedom and opportunities for connection.
Family Heirloom
Acrylic Canvas and Wire
36 x 47
2022
My first sculptural form using canvas, this piece is an exploration of all that we inherit from our families - the full spectrum from blessings to curses, that we carry. Bright colors represent the innocence at the core of these intergenerational patterns. We are all born into the legacy of our families and have some spectrum of choices about how to relate to these inheritances.
Isolated Reach
Knitted bedsheets and fabric hardener
53 x 18
2023
This piece is an attempt to depict the physical sensation of disassociating. The form expresses the conflicting experience of feeling both twisted and exposed, a sensation like being suspended in liminal space.
Path of Non-Linearity
Acrylic on Canvas
34 x 26
2023
This piece is an exploration of the complexity of emotion, disorientation, and imperfection of attempting to shift a deeply ingrained behavioral pattern. Something obscured becomes visible, an act of grace and beauty, but it is also an incredible challenge. This is an example of the type of work that evolved into sculptural form.
Cartography of Care
Acrylic on Canvas
24 x 36
2022
An exploration of unseen ancestral relationships through the metaphor of cartography. In this piece I explore the patterns of relationship that create an ineffably complex network of interconnection that is simultaneously omnipresent and invisible. This piece is an example of the type of work I was making that evolved into my sculptural work.
