STATEMENT OF WORK

My work uses photography, sculpture, and the process of installation to demonstrate causal relationships.  It develops through experimentation with the relationships and interactions among material, bodies, and physical processes. 

Analog photography is at the heart of my work where each stage presents an object or process that can be mishandled, forcing me continually to evaluate whether and how to intervene.  I use the chemical process to map a space between vulnerability and discovery.  

My work draws from experiential and imagined relations between a darkroom process in photography and in the queer space of a dark room; a temporal expanse and confinement in architecture and body relations. 

I stage fragile for-camera performances and photograph their collapse to identify specific gestures, reference a historical context that informs my subject matter, or recall elements from past pictures that open an uncertainty in their interpretations.

Research for my work is located within kink community formations and spaces claimed for sexuality in urban America, medicalization of sexuality and its relations to fetishism, and illness as a measure of time. As a person with chronic illness, I fuse my experiences as a patient with an examination of queer communities who fought for and created public/private spaces for deviation and sexuality before and during the outset of the AIDS pandemic. Recent events have altered how I value what the body senses or experiences.  The significance of small moments has been enhanced, amplifying the beauty in impermanence.