My work exists in the uneasy space between beauty and revulsion through the exploration of the vulnerability of the human body.Through sculpture, painting, and performance, I explore bodily distortion as both a visual language and an emotional truth. Whether it be a bag of simulated flesh mimicking the movement of breathing or an organism gushing milky fluid, I'm interested in the way form can both invite and repel the viewer in the same moment. Through performance I am able to insert myself into my own narrative and embody the visceral. These distortions and embodiments mirror my constant awareness of the body's vulnerability and its potential to decay.
I crave a wholeness that can only be described and further satisfied through making art that expands my own emotional limits through material exploration. I often begin with the idea of the body and push it toward conceptual collapse through distorting its form. I dissect ideas of post and transhumanism and pick out the pieces that satisfy my desire to live completely without limitation and explore how I can represent these ideas in my work. I work intuitively, allowing the medium to dictate when a piece feels alive, when it begins to breathe in its own unsettling way. My process is that of confrontation, between body and object, comfort and fear, permanence and loss
Within the larger art world, my practice seeks to contribute to conversations surrounding embodiment, mortality, and the psychological dimensions of form. I see my work as a part of an ongoing lineage of artists who use the body as means of questioning the nature of humanity by exposing its fragility. In a culture that often idealizes perfection or control, I aim to reassert the body's instability as something deeply honest. Through this distorted honesty I aim to reveal that discomfort is equally integral to experiencing humanity as experiencing beauty.