It Will Generate; It Will Transmutate(2025)
I shrivel and truncate. I sprout as I wither. I fester and spoil. I stretch and I generate.
My being diminishes, I am an imprint.
I hold a nostalgia for a time I’ve never known.
I use the foam improperly. It oozes, scrunches, spills, and bursts. It penetrates itself. It becomes an organ, skin. It tries to pull itself apart. It attempts to create equilibrium. It is a living entity, captured in stasis.
When I was ten years old I would try on my mother’s clothes in secret. I would look at myself in the mirror in a new way.
Clay is pushed into tree knots to create imprints, bodily casts from nature. They resemble orifices, they lack openings, yet they simultaneously exist as wounds and scabs.
A force inside the work reconstructs me, it teaches me that extremes can coexist. Ideas that seemed so disparate intertwine.
Steel and copper armatures act as a structure for a membrane. Various materials meet the latex to create a skin. It decays and discolors, it ages and dies. It absorbs and rejects, it holds.
The work teaches me how to better care for myself. It treats me in a way that I never could. It allows me to do the same. It doesn't hold shame, it doesn’t fear change or the unpredictable. It pushes forward and expands.
They transmutate themselves to become what they desire. Finally I transmutate myself.
Installation View: Latex, Expanding Foam, Steel, Copper, Pit Fired Ceramic, Glazed Ceramic, Ceramic, Cheesecloth, Plastic, seran wrap, copper mesh, Vinegar, Salt, phosphorescent paint, bioluminescent pigment powder, acrylic polymer emulsion, glue, charcoal powder, ash, raw wool, string, wire, joint compound, hardware, sand, vinegar crystals, pins.
Further Notes: #1 The glazed ceramic nipple pins were made from casts of Bruno’s nipples approximately four months before starting to take estrogen. #2 The Footsteps in the Final pictures were taken after the opening druing which the sand was disturbed by human presences and the imprints that were left by them.
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Installation View: Steel, Wire, seran wrap, Latex, Mig Wire, Fabric, plastic, light.
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Installation View: Steel, Chicken Wire, Mylar, Vinyl, Wire, Glass, controlled lighting.
My Openings(2024)
Installation View: Organic Material, Inflatable, Plastic Sheeting, Plastic Bags, Dyed Plastic, Steel, Concrete, Bricks, Rope, Twine, Nylon Cord, controlled lighting