Maturation
Its not just the sudden increase in hormones that make puberty such a difficult time in one’s life. Individuals find themselves living on the outskirts of adulthood. It’s a time lived in a grey area, when one undergoes through a process of differentiation, making choices to consciously alter and establish an identity.
My work is strongly rooted in this process of maturation, drawing attention to the crisis of constantly becoming. Acceptance and rejection- walk the fine lines. Horseplay to fist fights- intimate secrets to fumbling belt buckles- masturbation to more masturbation.
Even post-pubescence, the [my] body remains a conflicted site, always becoming instead of being. I use performance and video to explore these moments of emergence and distinction. My work consists of experiments that attempt to question, mask, alter, and re-envision identity to an amorphous (or perhaps: polymorphous) state.