Statement
I am a multimedia artist whose work is informed and conceptually underpinned by my experience as a disabled woman.
I work in response to the physical limitations I’m met with—using these barriers as the basis for how I approach the mediums I work in. In my time-based media work, I create downsized “sets,” where I am met with far fewer limitations than I am in the full-scale natural world, or a traditional film set. Such environments are accessible for me to manipulate, but still allow me to capture organic movement. My adaptive approaches often lead me to work on a microscopic scale, and experiment with combining mediums. For example, I often incorporate ink in my film practice in pursuit of the kind of abstraction found in painting—a medium which became less accessible to me as I lost hand function.
Often, my work takes shape as self-portraiture. In my portraits of progressive atrophy, I create visual representations of imperceptible changes that amass over time. I explore themes of illegibility, and draw from an archive of collective memory and visuals, in order to narrate and understand the experience of a progressive neuromuscular disease.
I seek to investigate methods of representing disability in realms where positive representations of it are largely absent. I frequently employ signifiers of disability in conversation with objects or gestures that symbolize beauty, femininity, and sensuality, or that harken back to imagery found in classical art—ultimately, positioning disability within spheres and among notions where it is typically excluded.
Video Sample Reel
ballerina (in progression) 2018 - video, color, audio- 3:55 min.
i can’t write 2019 - 16mm film, ink, color - 1:25 min.
hand model 2018 - video, color, audio - 1:47 min.
how did we get here? 2018 - video, ink, color, audio - 4:20 min
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