STATEMENT OF WORK

My artistic style can best be described as a fantasy staged narrative. Historically, I have created photographic scenes to reveal certain narratives and evoke emotion regarding my own past. However, My current body of work derives inspiration from not only my childhood but my familiar history and the history of my  homeland as well. Currently, in the stage of experimenting with my main medium of photography, I have transitioned into creating sculptural installation-based work with elements of photography less obviously embedded into them with the use of liquid emulsion, laser engravings and video-based performance. This has translated into a surrealist sculpture work used to process the traumas, forced transformations, and overall, colonization that has happened to the women in my family with the overall theme being the cannibalization of womanhood and culture.  Inspired by Oswald de Andrade’s Cannibalist Manifesto elements of bones and fur, hair, wax, leather, latex and plaster are main materials in my work. In order to evoke the literal meaning of Andrade’s description of the cannibalization of culture and having to become someone new cannibalizing themselves while still longing for the remains of the past. Creating comfortable places to mourn after assimilation and conversion.To mimic the feeling of being is no longer enough, conforming to a greater galvanized God. A God that has cannibalized the culture of indigenous womanhood.