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My biographically responsive artworks question the supposedly inherent masculine inability to convey emotion. My work intervenes in this assumption, asking whether a physical failure to encompass an emotion is the more profound alternative, because it allows the attempted communication of feeling to be seen as an outcome.
I work with emotionally complex events from my own life. Using symbolic objects and performance, I draw out and amalgamate opposing connotations related to my gender, sexual or atypical identities. These materials are then taken and pushed against their innate limitations resulting in brutal, ambiguous “failures” of representation and expression. My work is often presented in installations which layer assemblage, sculpture, video and live performance, allowing the audience to witness or embrace sometimes taboo experiences that have intensified before being forced through an artistic release.
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