I am a multifaceted visual and performance artist who uses a wide array of artistic mediums and materials to interrogate discomfort and the boundaries between artist, audience, and trust. I view each of my works as a form of self-portraiture, where I unpack my existence in a chronically ill body that navigates an unsafe and unaccommodating world. I obscure and distort objects, my corporeal form, and my body’s image to break down ideas of the seemingly immutable.
My work operates in the spaces between: between comfort and discomfort, the recognizable and the unfamiliar, safety and danger, existence and death. Creation has always been how I came to understand myself and the world around me, a way to grapple with morbid curiosities and to metabolize difficult subject matter. As I’ve grown through life and found myself in an ever-changing body, one rattled by the effects of a worldwide pandemic, I have had to confront the notion that the world moves forward at a relentless pace, devouring those who cannot keep up.
The between acts as an interruption—a breath—that allows me a space to explore complex feelings in safety, without threat of judgement or the potential for external violence. The between also serves as a generative space that dissects normative understandings of self and environment. Through a variety of mediums and frameworks that foster fragmentation, my art dwells in the space between as a way of distorting and deconstructing the internal workings that predicate my existence.
