Every lived experience is unique to the individual. In these works I offer a glimpse of my haptic experience. The emotional toll of body dysphoria and dysmorphia have affected my mental health for most of my life. Along with struggling with identity and labels. It has taken me a very long time to be ok with who I am but identity is a fluid thing that can’t ever truly be pinned down. How I am treated for the way I choose to appear has made me hyper aware of how I must act and how I have had to suppress aspects of myself in order to survive. A sense of uneasiness tends to follow my work, the disconnect between my understanding of myself and how society at large sees and categorizes me leads to tension, and opens me up to outside criticism and being treated as less than human. This has been a constant theme through my life and has shaped my worldview for better or for worse. 

The body of work is an experience, I have worked to make the experience as close as possible to the abstract of my interior life. The sculptures that are able to be held are a place of humor and are meant to act as a break from the works on the walls. The wallpaper is representative of traditional ways of thinking and being that i was raised up believing those inherited beliefs have made it hard for me to allow myself to be who i know i am but just as the wallpaper sluffs off the walls I slowly am able to move beyond the hurtful ideas that came before me.