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Body Armor
Long exposure digital photograph series
2020
Using myself as a model, I began exploring the relationship I have to my body and the performative movements of artistic swimming. Being blind within the body suit, the actions I perform depend on mood, physical touch, how I navigate my environment, and the surrounding noise. The blindness furthermore allows me to explore choreography that flows naturally throughout my body. The process partially resembles an interpretive dance.
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Face Mask
Fabric, Stuffing, Sequins, Beads, Thread, Wire
2020
The Fountain of Pleasure
Ceramic, Wood, Copper, Water Pump, Fabric, Stuffing, Human Hair, Sequins, Swarovski Crystals, Beads, Thread, Fur, Wire
2020
The Fountain of Pleasure examines current social and political structures pertaining to gender, class, and power. The work is founded upon the ideologies of the abject and its continual reflection to social order and bodily implications. The fountain aims to manifest the notion of abjection as a way to examine the naturalness of the body and its functionality as it pertains to acceptable political and social gestures. It exemplifies the absurdity of the non-norms and how they should ideally be viewed in the contemporary time of heightened political awareness. The grotesque, or abject, reinforce the most primal and animalistic aspects of survival which have been culturally suppressed while also rejecting the traditional notion of the fountain.
