I am a visual artist working in photography, performance, fiber and sculpture. I perform shame, control, pleasure and desire for the camera, illuminating the ways power pervades intimate relationships. I use my body as both material of and witness to the violence woven into our fantasies of love and connection. The work revels in the tension between consumption and regurgitation of ideas about women; specifically the ways their bodies are, and have always been, possessed and acted upon by men.
My work is informed by my identity and lived experience, including a history of romantic and platonic relationships with men that, since a young age, have often been manipulative, controlling, and cruel. In enacting rituals of intimacy and courtship, these interactions with men are translated symbolically through movement and gesture to allude to a quiet implied violence that exists in these relationships. I use my body, image and material as a way to reckon with desire, suffering and ephemerality.