Produits

Transparency print and lightbox.

24x36"

Limited edition 1 of 3.

Agathokakological Study is a series documenting the artists' first year of recovery after being struck by a motor vehicle, drawing upon historic Western photographic and sculptural traditions. Abstracting traditional body presentations in a confrontational manner leads to a surrealist examination in the duality of good and evil.
The process is an attempt to reconcile and embrace the resulting permanent disabilities, loss of identity and limitations of the flesh, while celebrating the body as a conduit for connection. It is the act of abstracting the human form that is the core of this documented performance work, capturing the body as a distortion of expectation; the contortions increasing as the artists' recovery progressed.
By absorbing, subverting and queering canonical Western sculptural poses the artist's body becomes a site for performance and intervention. A living sculpture, irreverently captured, pushed beyond its limitations.

Watercolour, acrylic, ink on canvas.

40x50"

And the people who never really knew me said, “We like the new you!”
And the people who knew my heart long before it shattered said, “She’s back!”

I still don’t know if I‘ve changed or if I have finally come back home to myself. Maybe I’ll never know and maybe it doesn’t even matter. I'm here now.

*This painting was inspired by the song White Flag by Bishop Briggs*

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The Love Letters (To My Exes) collection is a cheeky exploration of “love” and dating from the artist’s perspective as a confident, intellectual woman in her mid-30s. The artist playfully reflects on past romantic encounters to examine which were ruled by the heart vs. the mind. The heart is the true centre of human intelligence, not the brain. The heart is all-knowing, in its intuitive ability to discern when to push or pull, expand or retract. The brain’s tendency to overthink and overanalyze is not a sign of intelligence, but an anxious attempt to intellectualize emotions in order to avoid actually feeling them.

This playful collection explores the themes of identity, attachment, moments of clarity and cathexis that are prevalent in the search for love. The artist aspires to be vulnerable in exposing the various ways she has celebrated or abandoned parts of herSelf in her past relationships and encounters, and the feelings of triumph, shame, growth and sadness that have been part of her journey in dating.

The short excerpts that inspired the works in this collection were taken from the artist’s personal journal and paintings were created with specific songs in mind.

Digital photography.

36x24"

Limited edition 1 of 1.