Statement

My transdisciplinary practice explores the multiplicity of identity, performance of persona, and synthesis of queer spirituality through the erotic body. In drawing on approaches of repetition and iteration found in my printmedia work extended to the realms of sculpture, fiber, and performance, I interrogate how my identities ritualistically materialize and where they may collapse into one another.

Most recently, I’ve grown enamored by codes of intimacy as the impetus of my practice is shifting from an internally driven eroticism towards personhood reflected in others and the environments I inhabit. Having genesis in pasts within the Catholic Church and elite athletics, current embodied experience in adult entertainment, and amplified by a recently cultivated romantic relationship,currently lies in exploring how familiar gestures of intimacy can speak to the sanctity of the body.

Articulated through blown glass forms, wax casts from lovers’ undergarments, and the use of textile objects as both subject and substrate in my developing printmedia work, I’m interested in examining how ecstatic states from fleeting experiences can be preserved as relics. The process and resulting work capture the physical and emotional remains of intimacy – from residual stains to impressions of a stranger – while creating an elegy for the personae I confront in heated rendezvous.  The flattening and reduction resulting from acts of transfer or removal do not erase the entities my works originate from, but highlight the small moments of care that manifest when spending time with image, object, and text.