Breakaway

My work leaves a space for people to fill. By turning my memories into spectacle,  I create a catalyst to address the discomfort people have with vulnerable topics, such as femininity, security, and connection.  With the use of domestic materials, 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 and at times darker meanings.

Quit violence paired with a bit of humor remains ever present in my work as a way to confront my own fragility as a person. How can I connect with people as a woman --- without the use of my body as a sexual object. The need to be needed, used, remembered paired with the playful, tempting and lonely thoughts are felt by all.  Thought repetitive use and tedious behavior I create rituals that speak to unseen labor that is the underbelly of domestic life.

By analyzing connection in spaces where connection happens both inherent and implied, I create pseudo domestic spaces. This space leads to the bridging of people and inviting viewer interaction to open dialogue about consent, and privacy. With the absence of a figure, the audience is propelled to participate.