Statement
I’m interested in communicating an awareness of something that happens in the world that affects all of us and that no one is separate from: the prioritizing of vision has made us blind to our surroundings, neglectful of other sensory modalities. The ideology of ableism, specifically what is commonly considered normal or not normal, keeps us from creating meaningful changes that would be necessary for all of us to thrive as a society. I want to make art that addresses my own personal experience of blindness, while questioning and interrogating the imposing hierarchical structures that continue to shape, oppress, and favor the ocularcentric.
I interrogate the physical and mental structures of able-bodied spaces – in painting, installation, text, and “compositional objects” that explore themes of precarity, vulnerability, and the blurry territory between legibility and illegibility. My work conjures lived experiences of blindness that often implicate and antagonize the body into moments of discomfort, empathy, and introspection. By imposing a disability upon the architecture of a room, I subvert the choreography of how we encounter and confront these truths, focusing attention on the theatricality involved in disabled bodies having to contend with objects in time and space.
My work is physical to make and, ultimately, tactility prevails. I use blindness as a cipher to articulate my own predisposition to the world, building upon a lexicon of idiosyncratic shapes through a diaristic process that involves cutting paper, indexing, remixing, and composing. The constant misuse of materials and processes aggressively seep, soak, and spill into another – resin, concrete, ceramics, acrylic, and text, complicating the distinction between image and language. As an artist, I am guided by the metamorphoses that take place through translation – language to shape, shape to form, form to language, and so on - to offer the experience of sensation without distinction, pleasurable shapes and surfaces molded for the touch of the eye in collaboration with the other senses.
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Trap Door to a Bottomless Pit
2022
pigmented resin, plaster
96 x 96 x 0.5”
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Untitled (purple rain)
2022
pigmented resin, wood
96 x 5.5 x 5”
Braille translation: an object felt from one body to another
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Untitled (white light)
2022
pigmented resin, concrete
96 x 72 x 0.5”
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Untitled (trip like I do)
2022
mobility cane, glazed earthenware
Dimensions variable
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Untitled (still life painting)
2022
acrylic on canvas
45 x 35 x 1.5”
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An Unfinished Incarnation
2022
glazed earthenware
30 x 24 x 2”
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Dumb Forest
2021
acrylic on canvas, sewn
60 x 60 x 1.5”
Braille translation: if you cared, the future would look different |
This Deteriorating Language
(installation view)
2022
pigmented resin, wood, acrylic, canvas, concrete, oil-based ink, paper
Dimensions variable
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