/bodycrumbs

(ongoing)

Perpetual anxiety and chronic migraines have hung over me for a long time, and artmaking has come to play a substantial role in dispersing those dark clouds. /bodycrumbs has marked a deeper, personal shift in my priorities towards repetition, or ritual. That term — ritual — has been used by psychologists in a technical sense to signal a repetitive behavior systematically used by someone in order to neutralize or prevent their own anxiety. Creating each work here entailed repetitive steps and layered materials, all of which are tied together by the common red thread that helps me navigate my way through the storm. These ritualistic processes of creation have provided a space of healing, contemplation, and removal from reality.

I am trying to tether myself.

a thread, unread, 2022, digital video, 00:01:47 // *best experienced with headphones*

/cut, mixed media (cyanotypes on handwoven cotton, chenille thread), editions 1 + 2 of 3, 9.5 x 15.5 in, 2022

***just pull through***, inkjet print on cotton sateen, 24 x 30 in, 2022

A Reckoning, Inkjet on Rives BFK, 11 x 15 in, 2020 — ***a reckoning***, inkjet on cotton muslin, 24 x 30 in, 2020

***second offering***, inkjet print, 14 x 9 in, 2023

***recessive craters***, inkjet print, 10 x 16 in, 2023

An Anomaly, Inkjet Print, 13 x 18 in, 2019 — ***anomaly***, inkjet print, 13 x 18 in, 2019

***even the parts that make you cringe***, inkjet print, dimensions variable, 2023

A Shining, Inkjet Print, 36 x 22 in, 2020 — ***a shining***, inkjet print, 36 x 22 in, 2020

An Offering, Inkjet Print, 13 x 19 in, 2020 — ***first offering***, inkjet print, 13 x 19 in, 2020

***damn she got a body***, inkjet print, dimensions variable, 2023

A Compromise, Inkjet Print, 13 x 19 in, 2020 — ***a compromise***, inkjet print on cotton muslin, 20 x 24 in, 2020

A Rupture, Inkjet Print on Rives BFK, 10 x 13 in, 2020 — ***rupture***, inkjet print on Rives BFK, 10 x 13 in, 2020

A MAD IMAGE, CHAFED, digital video, 11:38 (loop), 2019

Cyanotype quilt with red embroidery thread tracing a rhizome structure over the whole piece, text message conversation printed in center.

Black darkroom cloth with small white and red stars embroidered throughout.

/bodycrumbs cyanoquilt (front side and back side), mixed media (cyanotype on cotton, embroidery thread, darkroom cloth), 48 x 64 in, 2020

detail from /bodycrumbs cyanoquilt, mixed media (cyanotype on cotton, embroidery thread, darkroom cloth), 48 x 64 in, 2020

#onrepeat, digital video, 00:02:16, 2020

ongoing experiments in the studio: finding the places where I leave my bodycrumbs, and wondering what myriad of forms they take.