Strapping It On | 2022
Strapping It On: Pop-Up Gender #1 | Shirt I meant to donate, thread
Strapping It On: Pop-Up Gender #2 | Two pairs of identical jeans found at a thrift store, thread
Strapping It On: Pop-Up Gender #2 (Detail)
A Sculpture That Could Fuck Itself | Flannel, thread, quilt batting, wire, and chair
Me and Strapping It On at Portal Theory, the 2022 Kirk Newman Art School Residency show.
Position II | Muslin, gesso, and thread
Position I | Muslin and thread
Preparatory work for Strapping It On: Pop-Up Gender #4 | Grease marker on paper
Strapping It On: Pop-Up Gender #4 | Red dress I wore to graduation, cotton, thread
Strapping It On addresses gender and the body through soft sculptures and altered clothing. I am interested in how the body signifies gender, and in how this signification is understood to occur through bodily moments of interiority and exteriority. I seek to pose playful questions about how we read bodies — and body parts — as gendered.
Across this work, I employ two repeated forms, changing their meanings by using them in different ways. In A Sculpture That Could F*ck Itself, the repeated form protrudes when viewed from one side, but recedes from the other. In other works, I re-contextualize the repeated form by placing it in different locations and on different articles of clothing.
Through these projects, I hope to locate the gendered body as a site of absurdity and contradiction — but also a site of pleasure, performance, and play.