banshee maria

The Porous Automobile 

My multi-media studio practice constructs autofictonal worlds whose logic stems from Queer theory, auto mechanical systems, Medieval medicine and eschatology. Drawing is my primary medium, and I see painting and sculpture as a generative process for drawn compositions. My drawings are large in scale but are assembled by implementing thousands of miniature marks. This drawing structure mimics how complex human anatomy is dependent on millions of microscopic cells. The sheer overwhelm from viewing large scale work in person, is a deliberate reference to the grandeur encapsulated in Medieval and Renaissance era religious altar pieces. In my practice I've extracted this grandeur and manipulated it to my own means of causing chaos and connection in the aforementioned systems of knowledge. 

These seemingly dissonant subjects collide through their similarities, with a particular focus on the fragile self reliant systems that make up our understanding of machine and body. In Medieval medicine there is an emphasis on fluids, specifically four essential fluids, yellow bile, black bile, blood and phlegm. The car shares the same four fluid structures needing oil, transmission fluid, antifreeze and gasoline. The two are intrinsically linked through their shared reliance on intricate internal and external systems to be in balance in order to function. Our biological makeup consists of electrical, fluid and chemical systems which mirror the machines we have chosen to forge.

Easter Sunday Exorcism
127” x 125”, Charcoal on Paper

Tire Pee II
26” x 60” x 10”, Tire, Motor Oil and Metal 

Immaculate Self Conception
112” x 105”, Charcoal and Acrylic on Paper 

Annihilation or Revelation?
99” x 117” 45”, Charcoal, Acrylic, Steel Wire, Mesh, and Oil Stick on Paper