I am both a critic
and a maker.
In this series, I explore the complicated relationship between the body, technology, and the other-than-human world. Based on my essay “Exuberant Embodiment: A Trans Utopia for an Unbearable Present,” these multi-media works visualize the extreme expressions of violence and hatred, the moral and ethical crisis of this century. Technofascism, genocide, and anti-trans hate saturate the present. However, insights from posthumanist philosophy, trans theory, and utopian studies intervene to envision a dismantling of the nature/human, nature/culture, and nature/technology dualisms that justify capitalist exploitation of the human and non-human animals.
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In this series, I express the multi-layered process of discovering identity. A variety of media—paint, ink, ground pigment, glue, drawing materials—express the ways identity emerges through a layering of experience. The arrival of new input—internal and external—begs the question, was there ever a “true self” to begin with? Or, is there a continual mapping of the self with no beginning or end?
Interiority, pigment, ink, and oil on linen, 32 x 51
Maturation, pigment, oil, and fabric on linen, 40 x 50
Like a Lady, oil, ink, and fabric on linen, 24 x 48
Dissonance, charcoal, pastel, and pencil on paper, 36 x 52
Election, oil, ink, and fabric on linen, 38 x 52
Preempt, pigment, ink, and oil on linen, 24 x 30
Reverse Gaze, ink and acrylic on paper, 18 x 24
Underbelly, ink and acrylic on paper, 18 x 24
Birthing, pastel, ink, and acrylic on paper, 24 x 36