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I use a range of media to create work that evokes elements of human bodily experience. Often, I use my own bodily identity as a starting point, especially my transition from girlhood to womanhood. I am interested in paradoxes within the body: containment and expansion, entering and exiting, dirty and clean, vulnerable but covered. My challenge is to find a visual language to describe bodily identity as a nuanced intersection of haptic experience, linguistic knowledge and material culture.
The bulbous soft sculptures in my most recent body of work, Champions, teeter, shiver, drum-beat and glow. In this series of bulging, abject bundles I introduced a process of collecting fabrics and fibers, a form of personal labor that I began as a child, into my artistic vocabulary. I obsessively layered simple support structures with duct tape and newspaper, puffing out welded dress frames and lampshades with cuttings and shreds and animating them with hobby motors, hidden speakers and imbedded inflatable elements. I utilized dyed cloth, latex pours, fringes, rubber bands, ruffles, twine, pillow stuffing, light bulbs, and assorted plastic go-gags as marks. As I wove and patched these marks together, quilt-like organic growths formed that were sometimes saccharine and sometimes monstrous.
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