exuberant viscera is an invitation for the viewer to misinterpret the artist. 

 

I interrogate the ways that individuals with non-normative identities are consistently misrecognized in daily life, with repercussions ranging from the uncomfortable to the debilitating. The objects with which we define ourselves (from a pair of scissors to personal identification documents) can be the vessels of these inaccuracies. I examine the possibility of using these very objects to disguise or obscure identity— to aestheticize, depersonalize, and take control over the experience of misinterpretation.

 

I use 3D modelling to recreate the intimate objects of my own life— mementos, detritus, and artifacts that bear the traces of my relationship to them— putting the symbols of my personhood into the hands of my audience. Viewers can interact with these candy-colored reproductions in a digital space, touching them on the screen of a smartphone or manipulating them with the cursor of a mouse. 

 

Yet the viewer’s access is complicated by the ways that I have distorted or obscured the narratives behind the objects. Placing them in a featureless void, caught in a motionless whirlwind of disarray, the imagery is disorienting. Despite having access to some truths of my identity, the viewer has no choice but to misunderstand them.