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I am interested in making things that potentially have personal ritual use both inside and outside the studio or gallery, such as devotional icons, altars, votive candles, ceremonial vestments, tattoos, and talismans. My installations are groups of images, objects, and ephemera which seem to have accumulated as a result of some kind of spiritual or metaphysical event. I use many different materials and forms in this work, including drawings, sculptures, photos, performances, texts, and videos.
This work began with haphazard research into the writings and biographies of medieval women mystics, such as Saint Catherine of Siena and other obscure figures like Julian of Norwich, Saint Lutgard of Aywieres, and Alice of Schaerbeke. Their diaries and poems tell of extreme fasting, self-induced stigmatas, apocalyptic dreams, and erotic visions. They have much in common with the work of contemporary artists like Carolee Schneemann, Hannah Wilke, and Marina Abramovich, feminist pioneers who rankled authorities but garnered under-the-radar hero-worship through their groundbreaking, deeply personal, and often harrowing performances.
Much of my work is also influenced by poets and musicians like Patti Smith, Marianne Faithfull, and Kim Gordon, all of whom write and perform with a mystical connection to their music and their audiences.
I am creating my own cult of worship, full of complex idols who have sought transcendent yet very physical states of being, through spiritual ecstasy, artistic creation, poetry, or music.
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