I create critical and celebratory disruptions within a framework that welcomes conversations about power, sexuality, deviance, freedom, failure and desire. DIY aesthetics inform the photography, video, objects & Tex(T)iles* through the use of dark humor and camp techniques. Fiction and fact cavort to build futuristic analog utopias, where insults and stereotypes are appropriated and the abject are embraced.
My practice is prioritizing work with my local community of queer, trans, gender non-conforming, POC & kinky dissidents- holding space for my subjects to unapologetically exist. Sometimes this impenitence takes the form of demands on a textile, an object that offers a portal into a secret history, or a contemporary take on the reclining nude. We work together to create collaborative conversations rooted in intersectional politics and art historical subversion. Together we model a (re)construction of pasts, presents and futures.
These explorations give way to a nuanced expression of self. They likewise interrogate canonical precepts, while shining light on my community’s survival, liberation and love. It’s as grand as resistance. It’s as simple as authenticity.