Statement

Engaging the way that we occupy and inhabit spaces, I focus on domestic environments and the power dynamics that arise between people. How we share space, how we don’t. These spaces are thoroughly charged with gendered actions and “performances”. Close relationships take on unique, but similar, power dynamics and often my process is that of trying to find where I fall into these patterns.

Glass often functions as a membrane between our public and private lives. Through windows or the touch screens on our phones, glass sets up a permeable border through which information is carried and distributed. Consideration of this membrane between public and private is at the center of my work with domestic spaces, as are the physical in-between spaces like the porch of a home.

Using my body, I perform as a stand in for a pseudo-anonymous, or “standard” body; the measurements of my body are the national average and my name is extremely generic. What does it mean to be “standard”? There are problematics to claiming that there is any one standard, regarding identity, and this approach allows for a polemical engagement with masculinity in contemporary social and domestic spaces. Using this approach to masculinity as a framework, this work aims to question reductive and binary systems of power and ways in which power dynamics are exercised.