PLUCKS SERIES​

 

Is the body one lone erasure poem?

 

For the entirely of 2024 I plucked part of my skin, taped out like a landscape, to investigate my feelings around losing my leg hair due to hormonal issues. As my gender journey has released me into nonbinary transness, I have wanted to wear my leg hair as an accessory, so of course this is the precise time in my life where my hair all of a sudden does not want to be there.

 

The body has jokes.

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I have kept the hair pluckings and am delighting my perversions by installing them on and into pieces of food.

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My curiosity also extends to installation method. The large scale projections can be read as both painting and printmaking in video form. Moving beyond the traditional print matrix, I employ the body as a matrix through gesture, repetition, and accumulation.  Theoretically, I believe video is the most direct and enduring form of print; each frame a monoprint of the one before, layered in succession, available to be repeatedly read. Queering process implicates the viewer, pushing them to consider the rules I am breaking and the access that rebellion can provide both of us.