Trophies
My work strives to depict the female experience. Contemporary society continues to believe women are less relevant, reliable, sane, capable, or worthy than their male counterparts. My goal in creating my work is to be part of changing this accepted norm. Currently I work in plaster bandages which I apply to the female body to render life-sized casts in order to depict aspects of the female experience. I am simultaneously fascinated and repulsed by how the sublime qualities of being female are regularly twisted around and perceived as weaknesses. I am interested in the ways women push back, and use their metaphorical elbows to make room for themselves.
Trophies 2023
Plaster bandage, mirror, wool, wood, plastic, metal, fabric
Installation dimensions variable (life-size figures)
