It’s been a mad, mad summer. At the start, I had a series of experiences that made see that the patriarchy is never really done with women. These experiences have been woven into the work as have the new feelings of independence that have given me license to experiment. It’ been a heady combination of anger, joy and discovery.
I’ve had to update my artist statement for this project—things have evolved: The Data collection invites contrast of dry data with the messy intimacy of food, fluids and emotion. Data is information, and the Collection tries and fails to quantify emotion, consumption, sex.
Food, measured and allotted, translates into the space we take up in the world. Food is conduit for pleasure, connection, comfort, sustenance. Also control, and appetite. The alchemy of the ordinary. Paper stands in for abstraction, ideas, flatness, transcendence.