My practice explores the body through the prisms of age, gender, race,
sexuality and history. I consider
memory, myth, ritual, desire and the spaces the body occupies within these
vignettes. The narratives move
between past, present and surreal projections of the future, sometimes occupying
these spaces simultaneously.
I explore the ritualized use of common
objects and architectural spaces; often queering their size, orientation or
form to blur the line between memory, dream and experience; plotting the
relationship between normative considerations of the body and its function in specified
spaces. I use racially identified
signifiers to twist and turn mythologies about the body and the spaces that it
occupies. The work is at once
confrontational and seductive. Graphic
novels, pugilist sport, colonial portraiture and magic realism factor into the narratives.
Recent work explores home
as a physical structure and repository for memories. I chronicle beginnings,
departures and returns to this symbolic yet physical place, believing it to be
the genesis where history, memory and myth are joined. The characters and the
spaces I build for them to inhabit demonstrate the capacity in our lives for
monsters, angels, heroes and giants, illustrating our reactions to occupation
and absence, desire, responsibility, and obligation.
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