IN PROGRESS...
2021 - 2022
Below the Surface, Within My Tissue, 2022.
Ceramic, Steel Cable, Red Acrylic Fiber
Image description for the first image in slideshow below: Bright red yarn hanging from ceiling to floor creating a half cylindrical shape. The concave cylindrical form of fiber is in half lengthwise like a long cape. The yarn is secured to the ceiling in long strands, each strand had been pulled apart, so it appears fuzzy and less manufactured. There are wads of red fiber tangled within the fuzzy strands. In the center of the red cylinder shape of the fiber is a large bulbous ceramic form of muscle tissue. It looks like raw meat, fiber-like bands create a texture that appears like muscle fibers. In the high points, a light pink and white color appears on the bands, and the creases and folds that are deeper have a dark pink and red color. It is glossed over with a thick coat of resin, which gives it a fresh-out-of-the-body feel. The ceramic form is hanging from a silver steel cable from the ceiling.
Ceramic, Steel Cable, Red Acrylic Fiber
Image description for the first image in slideshow below: Bright red yarn hanging from ceiling to floor creating a half cylindrical shape. The concave cylindrical form of fiber is in half lengthwise like a long cape. The yarn is secured to the ceiling in long strands, each strand had been pulled apart, so it appears fuzzy and less manufactured. There are wads of red fiber tangled within the fuzzy strands. In the center of the red cylinder shape of the fiber is a large bulbous ceramic form of muscle tissue. It looks like raw meat, fiber-like bands create a texture that appears like muscle fibers. In the high points, a light pink and white color appears on the bands, and the creases and folds that are deeper have a dark pink and red color. It is glossed over with a thick coat of resin, which gives it a fresh-out-of-the-body feel. The ceramic form is hanging from a silver steel cable from the ceiling.
What’s in My Petri Dish? 2022.
Ceramic, Fiber, Resin, Glass Petri Dishes, Light Box
Real Stories of People with Disabilities in Medical Environments
In this project, I aim to highlight the personal experiences of people with disabilities in surgeries, procedures, and medical appointments on body parts they will never get back. The emotional and physical effort we endure are parts of us that are gone. Placed in vials, petri dishes, containers that are removed and forgotten. The intended outcome is to capture the personal experiences of the individual with a disability while focusing the viewer’s attention on the person behind every dish. What do disabled bodies go through? The exact people themselves will remain nameless for anonymity, but their surgery will be written alongside the ceramic piece.
Ceramic, Fiber, Resin, Glass Petri Dishes, Light Box
Real Stories of People with Disabilities in Medical Environments
In this project, I aim to highlight the personal experiences of people with disabilities in surgeries, procedures, and medical appointments on body parts they will never get back. The emotional and physical effort we endure are parts of us that are gone. Placed in vials, petri dishes, containers that are removed and forgotten. The intended outcome is to capture the personal experiences of the individual with a disability while focusing the viewer’s attention on the person behind every dish. What do disabled bodies go through? The exact people themselves will remain nameless for anonymity, but their surgery will be written alongside the ceramic piece.
Invisible Test Subject, Solo Exhibition, 2021.
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A visual study of an overmedicalized environment in which a patient is treated as a specimen instead of a real human being. This solo exhibition is based on personal experience from test after test after test in the doctor’s office. I am removed from myself in this space, I am made to feel like anything but a person with complex emotions. I am just a confusing test subject that doesn’t show hypothesized results.
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A visual study of an overmedicalized environment in which a patient is treated as a specimen instead of a real human being. This solo exhibition is based on personal experience from test after test after test in the doctor’s office. I am removed from myself in this space, I am made to feel like anything but a person with complex emotions. I am just a confusing test subject that doesn’t show hypothesized results.
Kidney and Artery Abdomen Print, 2021.
Image description: An image from an actual human body scan created into a bitmap (dot pattern) screen print. The image is of the abdomen from the bottom of the ribs to the bottom of the pelvis. The bone is in a grey color and there are bright red kidneys and arteries twisted around on top of the bones.
Colorful Body Scan, 2021.
Imade description: A dotted, bitmap image of a body scan of a AFAB person. You can see the brain, spine, pelvis, and other bones. There are three layers of ink color, red, yellow, and blue, all very bright. Parts of the body overlap colors, resulting in a darker blue purple or greenish blue.
Viscous Matrix, 2021.
Ceramic, Wax, Wool, Yarn, Beads, Thread
Reclaiming the language from doctors, Viscous Matrix is a figurative representation of chronic pain from the connective tissues. Humans are all only made of cells. This figure is taken over by the painful cells, consuming their body. The inside of the body is hidden, with all its mishaps and malfunctions, this narrative piece explores invisible chronic illness.
Ceramic, Wax, Wool, Yarn, Beads, Thread
Reclaiming the language from doctors, Viscous Matrix is a figurative representation of chronic pain from the connective tissues. Humans are all only made of cells. This figure is taken over by the painful cells, consuming their body. The inside of the body is hidden, with all its mishaps and malfunctions, this narrative piece explores invisible chronic illness.
Visual Description: A baby blue ambiguous figure with cut out eyes and mouth. Beads and wool trickle down from the mouth, eyes, nose, and ears. The ceramic figure is coated in a thin layer of wax and looks like skin from a distance. From the chest down the figure fades into bumpy cells. The pink cells are glossy with glaze. Ceramic spheres as cells form at the bottom of the piece. Hanging strands of blue and purple yarn hang down with crocheted pink spheres. Peeking out from the inside of the figure are wool purple spheres that were crocheted.
Visual Description: A close up photo of the bumpy ceramic cells in pink and blue slip. The pink cells are covered in glossy glaze and the blue color surrounding the cells are covered in a thin layer of wax.
2020 - 2021
Stomach Lining Tissue, 2021.
Image description:
A multi layer screen print with photographic bitmap element. A microscopic view of stomach lining tissue cells that make a finger-like pattern. The background layers are medium pink and light pink with a medium purple photographic image on top. Subtle pinks and purples blend together with LOTS tiny cells shapes and organic lines.
Intercostal Convulsion, 2021.
This specific piece uses a hallow bust figure connected to a pelvis. The fiber connecting these ceramic pieces and reference the vital muscles that make up the innermost intercostal abdominal structure. Invisible bodily malfunctions are affected down to the microscopic level; while you cannot see it, that does not mean it is not there. With the tension pulling the figure in a twisted form as well as the horrid pain and symptoms that go along with it have further debilitated my body. This installation expresses the raw humanity that the viewer is faced with in my art.
This specific piece uses a hallow bust figure connected to a pelvis. The fiber connecting these ceramic pieces and reference the vital muscles that make up the innermost intercostal abdominal structure. Invisible bodily malfunctions are affected down to the microscopic level; while you cannot see it, that does not mean it is not there. With the tension pulling the figure in a twisted form as well as the horrid pain and symptoms that go along with it have further debilitated my body. This installation expresses the raw humanity that the viewer is faced with in my art.
The Hidden Knot Inside, Installation, 2020.
This installation is a body narrative piece of a burdened back with knots, tightness, and a history of labor-intensive activity. It leaves the body with an unresolved internal structure that pulls against and within itself.
Artwork Image Description: A white porcelain spine hanging from the ceiling from a silver cable. The porcelain spine has crocheted lines of pink, red, and purple jumbled knots. They are spreading out from the center of the spine.
Artwork Image Description: A white porcelain spine hanging from the ceiling from a silver cable. The porcelain spine has crocheted lines of pink, red, and purple jumbled knots. They are spreading out from the center of the spine.
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Irritate and Swell, 2020.
This is a narrative piece about a body with chronic pain. A pain originating from the kidney and the tightness spreads throughout the body. My choice to keep the figure separate is to reveal the ceramic crater glaze that transforms the internal space. There is a greater distance in the figure with bloating and inflaming injury. The yarn provides a nice contrast to the hard-ceramic surface. It also relates to the soft tissue found in the interior of the body.
Artwork Image Description: A broken body cracking in half and dropping yarn knots and crocheted kidneys in between. They are hanging from the ceiling from steel cable. The pink, red, and purple yarn connect to the figure as well as hang down and spread out in lines connected to the wall. It looks like sun rays of red yarn bursting from the crocheted kidneys.
This is a narrative piece about a body with chronic pain. A pain originating from the kidney and the tightness spreads throughout the body. My choice to keep the figure separate is to reveal the ceramic crater glaze that transforms the internal space. There is a greater distance in the figure with bloating and inflaming injury. The yarn provides a nice contrast to the hard-ceramic surface. It also relates to the soft tissue found in the interior of the body.
Artwork Image Description: A broken body cracking in half and dropping yarn knots and crocheted kidneys in between. They are hanging from the ceiling from steel cable. The pink, red, and purple yarn connect to the figure as well as hang down and spread out in lines connected to the wall. It looks like sun rays of red yarn bursting from the crocheted kidneys.
Growing Pressure, Break, Repair, 2020.
This piece is a narrative of a body with chronic pain. This figure explores the tactile tightness, cracking, and fragmented pain coming from within. As the pain grows and grows, gaining pressure and volume within the body, it starts to reveal itself externally. The process of this constant battle inside the body can only heal through self-repair. The stitches are evidence of this repair – something strong to rebuild and put itself back together. The suspension brings the tension present inside to the external area around it.
This piece is a narrative of a body with chronic pain. This figure explores the tactile tightness, cracking, and fragmented pain coming from within. As the pain grows and grows, gaining pressure and volume within the body, it starts to reveal itself externally. The process of this constant battle inside the body can only heal through self-repair. The stitches are evidence of this repair – something strong to rebuild and put itself back together. The suspension brings the tension present inside to the external area around it.
