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I am constantly fascinated by the comparison made by men and their perceived 'trophies'.
A collaboration with my late grandfather. Her tears are comprised of an old film photograph of a hunting trip he took in the 70's.
English Paper Piecing is one of the oldest forms of hand quilting. It is the base for the famed grandmother quilt made of hexagon flowers. It is also a huge source of community for women as they sit in groups to work on their EPP projects and trade fabric hexagons with one another. The process is also physically draining and time consuming, which is why it is often not a solitary practice. I found that stripping the community from such rigorous processes allowed me to push my body and attention span.
You’re Too Good Looking to Be This Size is a musing about a statement that my doctor made to me while administering my yearly physical—with his mouth close to my ear.
The undulating, empty sack hung from basement piping is a visual representation of the mental and emotional process I go through when processing the flaws of my body.
In continued efforts to meld the digital with the physicality of quilting, I began experimenting with the digital pixel and its optical ability in the physical world. I was also interested in the idea of ‘baring it all’ under the protection of the pixel.
English Paper Piecing is one of the oldest forms of hand quilting. It is the base for the famed grandmother quilt made of hexagon flowers. It is also a huge source of community for women as they sit in groups to work on their EPP projects and trade fabric hexagons with one another. The process is also physically draining and time consuming, which is why it is often not a solitary practice. I found that stripping the community from such rigorous processes allowed me to push my body and attention span.
English Paper Piecing is one of the oldest forms of hand quilting. It is the base for the famed grandmother quilt made of hexagon flowers. It is also a huge source of community for women as they sit in groups to work on their EPP projects and trade fabric hexagons with one another. The process is also physically draining and time consuming, which is why it is often not a solitary practice. I found that stripping the community from such rigorous processes allowed me to push my body and attention span.
In continued efforts to meld the digital with the physicality of quilting, I began experimenting with the digital pixel and its optical ability in the physical world. I was also interested in the idea of ‘baring it all’ under the protection of the pixel.
English Paper Piecing is one of the oldest forms of hand quilting. It is the base for the famed grandmother quilt made of hexagon flowers. It is also a huge source of community for women as they sit in groups to work on their EPP projects and trade fabric hexagons with one another. The process is also physically draining and time consuming, which is why it is often not a solitary practice. I found that stripping the community from such rigorous processes allowed me to push my body and attention span.
Through the vehicle of voyeuristic desire, the artist creates glimpses into a basement world, where her secret activities as a sexual being are on full display. The viewer peers through a velvet window at a velvet woman (the artist) performing a self-gratifying activity involving sexualized self-portraiture. The basement, in this world, serves as an arena for experimentation and secret-holding that the artist requires for uninhibited expression.
Through the vehicle of voyeuristic desire, the artist creates glimpses into a basement world, where her secret activities as a sexual being are on full display. The viewer peers through a velvet window at a velvet woman (the artist) performing a self-gratifying activity involving sexualized self-portraiture. The basement, in this world, serves as an arena for experimentation and secret-holding that the artist requires for uninhibited expression.
Through the vehicle of voyeuristic desire, the artist creates glimpses into a basement world, where her secret activities as a sexual being are on full display. The viewer peers through a velvet window at a velvet woman (the artist) performing a self-gratifying activity involving sexualized self-portraiture. The basement, in this world, serves as an arena for experimentation and secret-holding that the artist requires for uninhibited expression.
‘I expect you to be outgoing, friendly, obedient, smart, and fun.’ came from a message sent to me by a man in a message online.
Through the vehicle of voyeuristic desire, the artist creates glimpses into a basement world, where her secret activities as a sexual being are on full display. The viewer peers through an accordion book at a woman (the artist) performing a self-gratifying activity involving sexualized self-portraiture. The basement, in this world, serves as an arena for experimentation and secret-holding that the artist requires for uninhibited expression.
A collision between my current and teen self, existing in our ‘dream womb’.
English Paper Piecing is one of the oldest forms of hand quilting. It is the base for the famed grandmother quilt made of hexagon flowers. It is also a huge source of community for women as they sit in groups to work on their EPP projects and trade fabric hexagons with one another. The process is also physically draining and time consuming, which is why it is often not a solitary practice. I found that stripping the community from such rigorous processes allowed me to push my body and attention span.
‘6:30 p.m.’ is the time stamp on the field camera when it caught a beautiful doe looking straight into the lens.
Her eyes show most defiance in the large, unfuckable soft sculptures that begin to inhabit our space. The soft, pillowy self-portrait shown in gallery requires that we move around it. We can’t just put it away and forget it. It is a lumpy, undeniable fact that we must adjust to, not the other way around […] This is one strategy for her reclamation of agency- to use her sex appeal as the bait to her trap. Very much biting the hand that used to feed her.
