A common misread of my work is that it expresses my psychosexual oneness with the world; like, nature is sexy to me, and I’m turned on and at one with all this! And it is true that I am interested in eroticism as a force that connects me to the world, in the Audre Lorde sense of the erotic. But eroticism is not about feeling sexy. It is about powerful encounters with forces of beauty and horror. Sex is a part of this encounter. But the erotic can also be an experience of shock, confusion, disorientation, and disgust. Inhabiting a body deemed female has meant, for me, that I constantly feel the pressure to perform my relationship to eroticism in specific ways. My body is held by a public gaze that wants to shape it in its own image of beauty and desire. In my work I have experimented with this performance, answering these expectations in ways that can elicit a range of responses along that spectrum of beauty and horror, and sometimes, a bit of satire.
2018-2019 - Series: Garden Varieties
Heads blossom into ecosystems and disordered limbs tangle and transform as they come into contact with other bodies, forces, and forms of life. Lines of kinship proliferate.
2017 - Series: Flash Blindness
2015 - 2016
Cooperative Ecologies (small works)
Series: My Wet and Wild
Series: Deep Creek
2010-2014
The Open/We Break Down Ourselves
Animating this series of drawings are a host of questions that arise with the breakdown of the phenomenon we call "nature": questions about sex, gender, and bodies; questions about production, reproduction, and waste; questions about animality, bio-politics, and the creatures who refuse categorization as a singular being, hovering between becoming or negating, between life and death. These drawings were made in collaborative conversation with writer / theologian Beatrice Marovich.
A new to NYC artist trying to assimilate her new ecology…
