“Must I Ask?”
“Must I Ask?” is a collection of multimedia artworks serving as a visual protest, a reimagining of the institutional demands to conform and flatten sick, Disabled personhoods in order to be granted equitable care and access.
These works feature deconstructed medical forms and government applications for accommodations from the artist’s personal archives.
Published in FEELS, issue 23: Disability.
Breakings
As my illnesses have progressed, I have searched for ways of making that suit my new states of being. This current collection comes directly out of this exploration, with these works allowing me to break the artmaking process into steps that feel manageable at the different, everchanging physical and mental states I find myself in. The pieces begin as small watercolor paintings and then take on new lives digitally, being broken apart and reconfigured to become something new. This multi-step, multimedia process brings the element of time into the static works, making visible a form of living on Crip Time.
Breakings: Tactility Series
During a moment of physical and mental energy, the “Breakings” series took on tactility by, rather than digital processes, breaking down and reconstructing the watercolor paintings with scissors, knives, and adhesives.
“In my hands”
In 2020, I began making these knitted tapestries as a response to my inability to paint due to spacial limitations and energy-limiting conditions. The act of knitting brought on a meditative state, engaging my Crip body with softness. In contrast, however, the practice also conjured memories of childhood gender dysphoria.
Shown in “Prayers for the Pandemic” exhibition at @drawingrooms_jc and published in the exhibition’s online or print catalogs.
More Static Artworks
Published in Lassitude Zine, issue 2, archived in Wellcome Collection Museum catalog & Oxford Brookes University, and Zeniada Magazine.