ARTIST STATEMENT
Why do I practice art?
To honor the body.
To harness longing.
To uncover strangeness.
To listen closer to the bone.
To channel sensation into form.
To imagine beyond the dominant culture.
To move into liberatory places.
To disrupt codified ways of thinking.
I practice art through the lens of being queer, feminist, and a mother. Through these identities, I understand the experience of simultaneously fighting liberation and fighting for it.
Embodiment is a throughline through my practice, which weaves performance, dance, theater, visual art, installation, and language. In all media, the body is primary for me—my art is always in conversation with sensation, movement, and desire.
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.
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