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STATEMENT OF WORK
My work externalizes experiences with mental illness, dysmorphia, and assault, producing a taxonomy of emotive vessels. Exploring queerness, isolation, and existential dread through an uncanny, sometimes humorous lens, I contemplate societal reluctance to legitimize gendered craft and regard crochet as a behavioral response to apocalyptic conditions. Inspired by folkloric botanical motifs, institutional osteological displays, sci-fi/body horror cinema, and an abundance of time spent alone with an overactive imagination, each object is an unraveling relic of a thought, tethered to a surface and made viewable at a distance.
My sculptural forms are fashioned from hand-crocheted cotton thread that is dredged in glues and foraged pigments. The transformative act of generating and stiffening each unit into a static composition recontextualizes moments of despair and rage as ornate, provocative, or comical specimens. Heavily obscured by an overgrowth of crocheted string, fibrous vines, and lace-like flowers, the integrity of these objects is reinforced by complex networks, just as we are all strengthened by the calcified scars of a lifetime of experiences. These particular sculptures express my internal trepidations as a queer person existing in a volatile world and contribute to an ongoing conversation surrounding hierarchy, craft, trauma, and ecology.