Soft Earth Bodies
2020
Featured at:
John Fergus Family Scholarship Award Exhibition | Urban Arts Space | Columbus, OH | January 2021
I was scrubbed and sanitized, prepared and drawn on, sliced and sutured. It’s a lifelong journey to sculpt yourself, through cuts and cardio and recombination. Through this pursuit, I wonder - who is allowed to transform? These musings are ignited by the surgical presence of my transition, and boundaries faced along the way. Bringing form to transitional possibilities, my practice stitches comic arts and plush sculpture together, bearing a brood of limitless bodies.
PEEPER/BEAST FROM THE SEE
Blizzard fleece, embroidery thread, polyfill, acrylic paint
35in x 19in x 22in
TRIAD/ENTANGLED LEAN
Blizzard fleece, compression binder, embroidery thread, polyfill, acrylic paint
37in x 22in x 33in
WFV/ONE FOR MARY
Blizzard fleece, polyester chiffon, embroidery thread, assorted paper waste, polyfill, acrylic paint
42in x 37in x 48in