Silver gelatin fiber print rebuilt with water, time, cyanotype and photograms, 16x20, 2024.
I’ve been struggling with how to illustrate My Rage.
It’s been nearly 10 years that I have been using my art practice to practice caring for myself. I make work that helps me work through a fraught history that is stored inside of my body. For 10 years, I’ve been wielding the flexibility of photography, music, craft to mine my own process, which was at once rigid and highly controlled. 10 years ago, I hoped that if I let go, relinquish a pursuit of perfection, pace myself by instinct, direct my empathy inside, I would find my way out.
Up until nearly 10 years ago was a period of time where my body was necessarily foreign to me. This distance carried me as best it could through a history mired in dissonance - dissonance is severe when the notes struck are too confounding. I took my confusion to photography. I am finding my body.
Silver gelatin fiber print rebuilt with water, time, cyanotype and photograms, 16x20, 2024.
Silver gelatin fiber photograph of water destroying the emulsion of a silver gelatin fiber print, photogram of cyanotype residue, 16x20, 2024.
