Series of works installed in the Maryland Institute College of Art 2019 Grad Show
The body is our self, our possession, our environment. It’s an intermediary to the world and it is our world. Thinking about the biological processes that make up our human experience fascinates, awes and horrifies me by shifting my perception of a contained self.
Inspired by the mythic trickster figure and science fiction, this series of works explores both serious and irreverent ideas relating to human physicality. I’m particularly interested in the philosophical implications of our evolving scientific understanding of the human body and how we shape, and are shaped by, our environment. Concepts such as evolution, the origin of disease, aging, human behavior and sexuality all come into play, informed by my (pop) scientific, cultural and personal knowledge.
In these works, my interest in biomorphic forms and material as metaphor for the human body meets the replication of internet culture. Much like a strand of DNA that corrodes through imperfect copying, video formats like makeup tutorials or ASMR videos populate, spread and evolve in the internet ecosystem, competing for the scarce resource of attention.
