Anatomy of Armor
These pieces are an examination of interaction, an attempt at understanding what it is to inhabit an existence that is at once so bodily and also utterly of the mind. This work is an investigation of the human experience. Something that creates an ability to continually embody the paradox: strong/fragile, protected/vulnerable, scared/strong, scarred/beautiful. Which is in and of itself something of an anti-ability. Humans are the ultimate living paradox.
I circle notions of home, flesh and boundary to address feelings of separation and interaction. In many ways this work is an attempt at making peace with the paradoxes and polarities that are ever present for humans in general, and also painfully present in our political climate.
I circle notions of home, flesh and boundary to address feelings of separation and interaction. In many ways this work is an attempt at making peace with the paradoxes and polarities that are ever present for humans in general, and also painfully present in our political climate.
Anatomy of Armor
Photograph / Projection
Clay, body, photo
2020
Photograph / Projection
Clay, body, photo
2020
Armor One
Photograph / Projection
Clay, body, photo
2020
Photograph / Projection
Clay, body, photo
2020
Heart Armor
Photograph / Projection
Clay, body, photo
2020
Photograph / Projection
Clay, body, photo
2020
Body Mapping Series
This work is an attempt at making peace with the paradox of the bodily human existence. Growing up as a woman in this country and society is complicated. Capitalism encourages rampant body hatred and dysmorphia so ensure higher and higher profits off the back of the body hatred they sell. It's often difficult to find the edges of understanding this when it has been indoctrinated in people from an insanely young age. The body mapping series came out of this search for understanding.
All of these pieces were created by using the outline of my own physical body. Tracing legs, belly, arms, neck ~ or pouring slip over by body onto the paper below, allowing whatever imprint it may to occur. The beauty for me is in the differentiation, the subtlety, and the anonymity. I want to leave room in the work for people to explore their own bodily edges. This is why I have kept them mainly abstract. Once it is understood that part of the tool of these creations was the body itself, I love the possibility for discovery of body lines in the work, that may or may not speak to viewers about their own body lines.
All of these pieces were created by using the outline of my own physical body. Tracing legs, belly, arms, neck ~ or pouring slip over by body onto the paper below, allowing whatever imprint it may to occur. The beauty for me is in the differentiation, the subtlety, and the anonymity. I want to leave room in the work for people to explore their own bodily edges. This is why I have kept them mainly abstract. Once it is understood that part of the tool of these creations was the body itself, I love the possibility for discovery of body lines in the work, that may or may not speak to viewers about their own body lines.
