Installation photo, Stoveworks open studios, 2024
IMPROPER OF MEN AND ANIMALS
Single Channel video
1 minute, looping
2024-ongoing
“Improper of men and animals” is quoted by the Oxford English Dictionary in the
etymology of the word prone. Comprised solely of found images, this short looping video displays women in different horizontal positions. As reclining nudes, prone women are a foundational trope of art history; however, fragile, hysterical, sexy, witchy, sick, and/or defenseless, the prone woman is an icon throughout culture. ‘Prone’ may connote bodily position, but it also connotes predilection to. In this second connotation of ‘prone woman’, I find the potential for power,
SCENES FROM AN ILLNESS
Single Channel video
6:14, looping
2024-ongoing
Scenes from an Illness presents text descriptions of images collected in response to the continued forms of double standards, discrimination, and inequality all those who identify as women experience.