My drawings embrace a defiant attitude towards imposed social structures. Influenced by my formative experiences surrounding the ambiguity of my gender identity, sexuality, sensuality, and spirituality. I merge observed reality and abstraction to form a visual language of liberation empowered by my trauma to highlight my queerness, which materializes through the sensuality of my body. Abstract forms reflect on estranged society and appear as semi-abstract pictorial space devoured by limbs and bodily fluids. Accompanied by symbolic representational imagery, such as phallic toys resembling religious artifacts to allude to my religious upbringing and severed ties to institutional religion. Pearlescent orbs are symbolic of a pure spiritual presence, accentuating the contradiction between my purity of heart and tainted mind, while feminine long hair is embodied through wispy lines to reveal my inner and external factors of perception.  

 

Within the confines of a horizontal frame, my anonymous forms, erected and bare, recline in a sweeping ripple of swirling fluid space. Their marble like bodies appear luminescent within the distorted perspective of close proximity from a position below, looking upward. I humor the cross by transforming it into a phallic device for pleasure, as it plays on the idea of God penetrating us all and highlights the suppressed impurity of the church's history.  

 

The environment depicted in my work is inspired by the body’s internal and external crevices, shifting between deep and shallow space using directional lines to guide your eyes across the intertwining loops of structure that edge the border of my pictorial space. My drawings appear rigid and pristine to contrast the dynamic nature of my silhouettes. The contrast of these two elements accentuate the liberation that I embody and the perfectionism produced by my toxic parent-child dynamic. A push and pull motion in my larger drawings parallel the physical gesture involved in creating a mark as I work on paper attached to an upright surface, a wooden board on an easel or a wall, my body twists and my arms swing to the tireless footwork for a holistic vision of my drawings. As I think of space as an extension of my internal and external body my figures undulate and glimmer to the stimulating idea of a future that is free of constriction.