featured in high school senior art exhibition with below artist statement:
My body of work began with inspiration from queer artist and activist David Wojnarowicz. Wonarowicz is known for his motif of the house on fire, his reflection of the contemporary sociopolitical world through the height of the AIDS crisis in America. Wonarowicz's simple imagery of fire bears teeth. I began considering the pressures within my own experiences with queer and racial identity, politics, and activism by experimenting with physical mediums and natural elements of fire and water. In what ways does the sociopolitical machine of our world churn and consume through lives? I imagine peace beyond stagnating stillness, stilling flame and current but finding in my work only the fragile stability of cracked glazed, paper made sheer with wax, and representations of dreams.
I include in I Dream Fish a print of Wonarowicz's 1990 photograph with text Inside this House, via the David Wojnarowicz Foundation, which developed out of his and Marion Scemama's 1989 film Inside This Little House. This piece inspired my own, beginning with imagining what form the dreams in Wonarowicz's might take physical form.
I include in I Dream Fish a print of Wonarowicz's 1990 photograph with text Inside this House, via the David Wojnarowicz Foundation, which developed out of his and Marion Scemama's 1989 film Inside This Little House. This piece inspired my own, beginning with imagining what form the dreams in Wonarowicz's might take physical form.
