MESS: Artist Statement

My work leaves a space for people to fill. By turning my memories into spectacle,  I create a catalyst to address the discomfort people still have with femininity and other vulnerable topics. Using domestic objects as my material, I join found and fabricated in uncanny intimacies.

This work masquerades as a series of seemly misguided attempts to connect with people. All the while deliberately getting people to reflect on their pre-constructed internal biases. Like veneer my work, falsely conceals its deeper meanings with whimsy and humor. I bridge people together by creating a space that invites viewer interaction and opens dialogue about consent, and privacy. With the absence of a figure, the audience is propelled to participate.

Stuff to use and think about.

Discomfort

Ritual

anonymous collection

Habit

Playful

Lonely or empty

False

Tempting

Nexus

Connecting

Melancholy

Equality

Quite violence

Use of time?

Slapstick?

Voluntary vs involuntary

Use of the consumer

Sudo domestic space

I create comfort and discomfort

The need to be needed

Using humor and satire to deal/confront my own fragility

How can I connect with people as a woman --- without the use of my body as a sexual object

subtle grit

allowed feelings to cross borders

Addressing privilege

Art should be excisable to everyone

I want my work to be assessable

Wallpaper reminds me of growing up in a trailer house

What am I trying to say?

Why are somethings funny and somethings not?

Work that can and should be accusable to everyone, without people in fear of it.

By creating work that is familiar

My work studies intimacies,

class, and femininity

Masquerades

while also touching on topics such as class.

Maybe bring more text in to my art?