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I am a multimedia artist. I make art by taking apart my own body while reflecting on the bodies of others. How body parts fit together, how they pattern, how they create and make up me and other people. Through pattern, duplication, misplacement, manipulation, observation, and sometimes personification, I explore the hidden and not always shown parts of the body. I do so to not only represent them but to give life to those forms and show their relation to each other in my mind. In my work body parts are detached from the self and made their own. In doing so, I strip them of a person or a gender, allowing them to take on entirely different roles in a viewer’s mind, thus allowing a connection to my own body and that of others that transcends gender and binary limitations. I am motivated by my curiosity of my placement in the world and the similarities and differences I have with others internally and externally.
Fishnets, 2020Mirror, red spray paint, laser cut engraving12"x12"
Untitled (da Vinci), 2020Mirror, black spray paint, laser cut engraving12"x12"
Folds, 2020Mirror, blue spray paint, laser cut engraving8"x10"
Untitled, 2020Mirror, black spray paint, laser cut engraving8"x47"
Untitled, 2020Mirror, red spray paint, laser cut engraving19"x24"
Experimenting with mirrors has allowed me to further question how we reflect upon ourselves internally and externally. The reflection of the mirrors allows the individual to see not only the engravings but themselves within the engravings as well. The engravings are based on body parts that are typically hidden or not shown. Upon further studies of the body, I am able to be consumed by the patterns it creates which has revealed a connection with my own body and that of others.
Have You Ate? is a six second animation. By personifying body parts this "creature" takes form and gains their own feelings, emotions, and identity. They are hungry and they want it to be known.
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