ARTIST STATEMENT

Only by harnessing our longing can we unshackle ourselves from what no longer nourishes us.

I make art to practice turning to the truth of my body. Through close readings of the body, I uncover strangeness and excavate a voice closer to the bone.

My art channels desire and sensation into form.

I am an activist formalist. This means that I think about subject matter through form. This also means that I interrogate the basis of form. I make art to imagine beyond the dominant culture and to move into liberatory places that scare me.

Let the old structures shatter.