my practice

My practice seems to be divided between two separate ways of working: devised/set-up scenes and portraits (mostly self-portraits), and snapshots/quicker investigations. In both areas of my work, I examine a few things: awkwardness (often bordering on the pathetic), the bizarre, issues of self-worth and -awareness, and humor. In the self-portraits and other set-up photographs, I exaggerate all of these things to give access to them, often to the point of using visual puns. I perform my own anxieties in domestic settings, often interweaving those issues with others of intimacy and privacy, the body and sexuality. I have further addressed the body (and language) with stark, objective photographs of slang and derogatory terms that are used to reference sexuality (a picture of a tea bag, a muffin top, a bundle of sticks, etc.).

I choose to address all of these issues with playfulness. In fact, the theme that binds my work is the ridiculous nature in which we speak of and view things, whether that be mental illness, bodies and sexuality, our surroundings, or the self.