in their own imago

fruiting bodies at play

In this series of brown clay and stainless steel forms, I explore the notion of becoming an evolution that is self-determined. Undulating lines, folds, and curves define the surfaces of sculptures that resemble seedpods, ready to birth a futuristic or speculative body or identity. The piercings, signal a body that chooses to adorn itself. These figurative works slip between animal, mineral, human, and symbol, mobilizing queer and playful vernaculars to seize space for the kinds of becoming that undo harmful mythologies of “progress” and “categorization” inherent in empirical thinking and heteronormative culture. Stretched, pulled, coiling and unfurling, split and cavernous, folding into and out of phallus and vulva, shedding skin as if chrysalis or as in birth, these gestural bodies never finish or complete, but arrive in their own time, thus opening up space for new bodily transformations to take shape and inherit their own relation to time.