Time / 2022-2023
Single channel work, 04:02, iPhone
Filmed and edited in a single day, Time (2023) is a work inspired by one's body. The artist began to think about how much time it takes to groom and care for one's body and how much time it has taken to grow and maintain it. The work focuses primarily on close shots of the body, showing scars, stretch marks, calluses, hair, etc.
Hair can also be perceived as quite gendered and feminine which involves another layer; what does my hair mean to me? How do others perceive my hair and my person (i.e. is my hair the reason people continue to see me as a woman?)? And does the discomfort that results from others' perception of me matter more than the time and energy spent maintaining this organ and body?
Mother / 2023
Single channel work, 04:16, iPhone
Sound re-edited.
Imagines the concept of motherhood, queerly imagining what is motherhood (in contrast to parenthood), raising a child, family, and kinship. Something very close as I am very close with my immediate family and yet so distant in my life; being so far away from even considering having a child. What is motherhood without a childhood? The audio is sourced from family, my cousin, and my grandmother talking to them, which also links this larger line of motherhood.
Mother / 2022
Single channel work, 04:16, iPhone
Featuring Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting by Elton John..
In My Body / 2022
Single channel, 04:07, iPhone
Exhibited in:
2022. Living Life: Stories of Artists. Cinema Arts Centre, Huntington, NY, USA.