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The Human Book (2023)
Each page scales to about 4ft 11in. The borders are screen printed and drawn with my body as reference. This book was meant to be a record of my body at that moment in time, literally opening myself up like a book to share my outlook on my life at the moment. Seeing a person's experiences laid out on their body is a show of solidarity through the rough and an offering of hope. I have been through this, and now I am changing and growing and that is okay. It's good actually. The final page is in progress, waiting for a chance to be displayed so that people can interact and write on it as they please. I want to demonstrate that my body is mine and I have grown to a place where I can share this with my peers and put my faith into them.
Untitled (2023)
I used creating temporary tattoos as an experiment that could more so be a fun party trick, but the main goal was to get in some digital art practice and take a break from some heavier concepts. I was able to create these tattoos by printing off my designs on a "tattoo paper" that comes with a sticky sheet I then applied to the tattoo paper that gave my designs the tacky, temporary tattoo, transferability.
Uncomfy Feelings Go in the Closet (2022)
I held in mind "faking a smile", embarrassment and nausea when creating the three faces of this sculpture. This piece was shown in a closet at the Tabula Rasa Gallery, I wanted to invoke how we try to study our feelings away until the amalgamate into a monster you cannot control anymore. Always lurking behind the door about to burst out. For this piece I soaked and splattered two bed sheets in watered down acrylic paint and hand stitched them together with yarn, to serve as a body. I then used an old house lamp and some chicken wire structures to hold the sheets up and make the figure look elongated. I cut out holes from the sheet and clipped my Lino prints in, and used spray foam to hold them in place and give them a guttural look.
Hola (2022)
A collograph experimentation using a self portrait carved out of cardboard and used as a jigsaw piece with a rainbow roll background. This was more for practice and seeing what textures and imagery I could create with materials around me.
