On Touch,
Artist Statement
My body is my practice, serving as a subject and explored as form. My work attempts to establish a correlation with the world through material means.
The pieces center on ideas of the body as an island, an object, an actant, an affect(ant), and a medium, and its proportionality to what lies outside it. The juxtaposition between the body's own borders and the constructed reality it inhabits is a permanent inquiry. I also investigate where the borders of the artistic medium, including the body, lie and how they define both themselves and what is shown through them.
These explorations are solidified primarily through documented happenings (acts) in both the studio and external environments. The preservation of these acts, or their traces, is displayed through books, photographs, drawings on fabric and paper, and occasional writing.
Statement on work shown in exhibition
On Touch is a collection of drawings on cotton that focuses on what exists between you and your environment—a space where contact is welcomed.
The drawings are created as outlines, confirming the hard edges of both myself and the viewer. They serve as investigations into how to touch, how to be touched, and through this questioning, achieve a re-embodiment of the medium—both the body and the art object.
