Sculpture

Heirloom

Expectations

In Place But Out Of Place

2020, Video, TV, Terracotta, Bathroom towel rack, rhinestones, wig, glitter, grout This installation helped me begin think about the importance of reflection and examination, and the bathrooms place as the proverbial “closest” and its necessity in the queer experience. It also began my exploration and understanding into identity signifiers. It posed the question: what happens […]

Pleasure Palace South

2021, 6 Projected Video, Couch, Terracotta. While the north space focuses on the Diva and the performance of gender and identity, it dehumanizes me, the south gallery works to re-humanizes me. The variation of close ups, angles, and subject matter works together to show a raw side of humanity: human desires, human actions, and sexuality. […]

F U Duchamp Your Time Is Up

2021, terracotta, video This urinal, of which there are many, since the original doesn’t exist anymore, has become a symbol for the birth of conceptualism. The act of a gender queer body tearing out pages of a book about Duchamp above a frankensteined (queered) version of his urinal grounds the work within the artworld. Rejecting […]

Never Wanted To Have to Be here

2020, terracotta, disco ball mirror, vinyl, latex, drywall, wood I am interested in the identity duality of a mascuine born body, and its relation to the spaces that it specifically has to exist in, creating a space that is both hyper personal and extremely detached.I want to explore this part of my identity that I […]

Tandem Urinal

2020, Terracotta, Rhinestones, Sandblasted Mirror, Steel I am interested in the identity duality of a mascuine born body, and its relation to the spaces that it specifically has to exist in, creating a space that is both hyper personal and extremely detached.I want to explore this part of my identity that I am tied to […]

2020, Terracotta, Rhinestones, Sandblasted Mirror, Steel

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I am interested in the identity duality of a mascuine born body, and its relation to the spaces that it specifically has to exist in, creating a space that is both hyper personal and extremely detached.I want to explore this part of my identity that I am tied to because of my male born body and how being raised in that way and how those spaces influenced how I developed an understanding of myself.
The public bathroom is a public and private space. The Urinal is designed for the use of male born bodies, and In the development of a male person's identity they become a sort of rite of passage into “manhood.” In itself the urinal is just a vessel, or depository for a human's by-product but in its layout, design, usual proximity to one another forces a confrontation and examination. The public bathroom becomes a stage and an arena for the performability to one's masculinity, forcing comparisons.

Rite Of Passage

2021, Terracotta, Monoprinted flocked wallpaper, rhinestones, Fringe This piece explores the complex nature of identity as a universal concept, examining how identity develops and changes through time as a fluid thing. On a more specific level I want to bring up the politics of the body in relation to the feminine and the masculine as […]