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, my practice’s emphasis currently lies in where lust evolves into sustained intimate connection and eventual spiritual transcendence.

Articulated by creating molds and casts from my scene partners’ underwear and using towels, bedsheets, and socks as both substrate and subject for my developing work, I’m interested in examining how ecstatic states from fleeting experiences can be preserved as relics. The process and resulting work captures the physical and emotional residue of intimacy – stains, imprints, signs of wear and care – while highlighting tenderness as a mode of resistance.