Reclining Nude 1

11.13 x 14.88 inches

Collage with Screenprint and Linoleum Block Elements on Cotton Rag Paper.

2023

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This work is a new series of collages about PLEASURE and about my body. The human body is often forced into a small binary box, but the human body is an expansive, wonderful, and mysterious container. I am fascinated by my body and all it can do. It took me two decades to learn how to fully enjoy my body instead of shaming or exploiting it. 

My purpose as an artist is to celebrate my bodily autonomy and engage in PLEASURE, to ignore dominant ideas that attempt to shame me for being wild and free, to reclaim my body and participate in joy which is my birth right my. And, to be powerful from a place where I can be my fully expressed self and therefore trust my body’s wisdom.

Naked photography is one of my favorite forms of art and something I’ve been doing for the last 3 years in collaboration with my friend Bobby Gordon. When we wild ourselves we can more easily tap into nature’s wisdom, and shift ideas about pleasure and how we express it.