Considering the interfacing or blurring of objects and the body, I work to create sculptural structures and forms enabling an acute awareness within the sensory experience of my audience. Asserting my identity as a queer woman I embrace a “damned if I do, damned if I don’t” principle within my practice. Pushing unapologetic engagements in stereotypical or “objectifying” presentations of gender expression and sexuality. Engaging aesthetics of grotesque beauty, hair becomes a primary material in which I channel questions of personal identity, memory, maternal lineage, and systematic matrices. Reflecting overly sweet sacrine imagery of hyperfemininity, vibrant candy structures contrast manipulations of hair. Implicating the viewer in an experience of contamination through consumption.
The binding effect of these materials on the viewer's sensations works to echo cultural and historical aftermaths on female identities as they exist within patriarchal systems. Considering the societal allowance granted to women under these establishments to be “seen and not heard,” veiled behind the walls of domesticity. Within the application of my practice I aim to confront these themes while simultaneously reinforcing my own presentation and occupation as an unapologetic unpunishable queer woman.