Artist Statement: Hello
Ahh, breasts. Bouncy, brazen balls of comedy, each and every one.
As a lady, no matter what you are doing, you have them.
On the toilet? You've got breasts.
Buying cereal? There they are, along for the ride.
Trip and fall on your ass? The twins will see your fall, and raise you a couple aftershocks of their own.
Hello, they say!
You can ignore me, but someone, somewhere, is aware of this part of you.
Hello!
Well, hello right back, you bizarre body parts. Hello to you too.
Artist Statement: Hanging (front and back)
These photographs are about the comical awkwardness of having a body.
Simply put, our bodies are physically heavy, accidentally sexual objects - we have a gender,
our bodies are sexual, there's no escaping this; regardless of what we are doing
we are doing it in a sexualized physical form. We can intellectualize ourselves,
distancing our thoughts from our bodies, but the minute your foot gets itchy that disconnect is gone.
As a woman, I am especially aware of my sexuality because people I don't know
point it out as they drive by in cars. It is strange; I am trapped in this specific body
and related to in this specific body; I am hanging awkwardly here;
it's a blunt and hilarious thing, to be flesh.
Artist Statement: Visual Weight
The Visual Weight series stems from my experience as a security guard at the Frye Art Museum. I spent hours each day silently walking through the galleries, growing familiar with each new show, and in a broader sense, with the ways any show interacts with the gallery space.
There is a specific procedure involved in installation and deinstallation of exhibits. When a show is finished, its gallery is blocked off from the general public. First the art is removed, then the walls are patched and painted, then the new show installed; and only then is the lighting changed. Because of this there is a long period of time where certain galleries consist of nothing but blank walls, still lit for specifically sized artworks, now absent. As I would pass through these rooms I still found myself relating to these light-artifacts as having a concrete presence, a visual weight independent of the missing work, retained by the preserved layout. The art was initially hung with a certain composition dependant not just on content, but on size and shape and quantity; through the leftover lighting, I was presented with a new exhibit, cut off from the rest of the museum, from the general public, cut off from even artistic intention.
Each photograph in this series is titled after the removed work.
Artist Statement: Constructed Narrative
My constructed-narrative photographs are nonlinear short stories. They focus on bizarrely adventurous young girls populating beautiful but uneasy worlds. To create these images, I draw from childhood fantasies and memories, then construct life-sized environments. By pushing these scenarios to an extreme conclusion, the girls become metaphors for our hyper-real childhood selves, where remembered emotions become stronger through time.