Statement

My transdisciplinary studio practice explores the multiplicity of identity, creation/performance of persona, and synthesis of queer spirituality through the erotic body. By using conceptual approaches found in my printmedia work such as repetition and iteration and extending them to my emerging engagements in the realms of sculpture, fiber, writing, and performance, I interrogate how my identities ritualistically materialize and where they may collapse into one another. 

Material fetishization plays a significant role in my work, notably in my use of fluorescent plexiglass as a contemporary nod to stained glass. By blending God’s natural light with erotic artifice, I explore themes of transparency and concealment while examining the veil between public and private. This concept extends to my fiber work, where I print pornographic self-images onto translucent fabrics and fringe to materially engage with how my personas are synthesized, adorned, and performed. In exploring several substrates for my work, I interrogate the intersections of athleticism, queerness, and spirituality in my practice and reveal the discreet avatars that arise within each realm.

Most recently, I have found myself enamored by rituals, relics, and sacred spaces. Informed by a trip to India and intertwined with reconciled pasts in the Catholic church and high-performance swimming, I use the idea of repetition to symbolically offer myself to my practice and create an alternate spiritual pathway rooted in queer life practice. Conveyed through endurance-based video performance, mold-making multiples, and print + artist book editions, my inter-media work echoes a devotion to omniscient higher systems that have guided me to the spaces I currently occupy.