I use the erotic as a lens to probe entanglements of gender, power, and desire. I make drawings, sculptures, and installations with steel, leather, silicone, and found objects. By melding mediums together, I create artworks that serve as love letters, diary entries, and sexts between lovers.
The works are polished in some ways—polished hardware, graphic forms, slick leather—but refined elements are undercut by jagged edges, bodily stains, or heavily patinated surfaces. Striking a balance between the abject and the precious relates to my experience of moving through the world, and my experience in BDSM. I yolk together lived experience, art historical references, family histories of personal and colonial struggle, fantasies, and punk and kink epistemologies to create analogues for my environment.
I consider line and repetition, as formal elements of art but also conduits of pain, pleasure, boundaries, and desire. My essential question is: can a line translate the ache of desire? I am interested in making work that agitates the binaries of fantasy/reality, pain/pleasure and inviting a reframe of our collective understanding of violence and intimacy—one that centers consent and autonomy, rather than patriarchy and colonialism.