Eve in 2024 on the kitchen floor of their landlord special
2023. Colored porcelain, slip, underglaze, glaze, linoleum floor tiles.
Installation, 4’x4’x3’
2024 The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, Yasha Young Sculpture Award Top 25 Finalist
The houses that colonization built are not safe. Feminine bodies are historically seen as private and discluded from democracies and public spaces-- delegitimizing bodies.
I’ve been learning how to own a space now that I am “out.” My body has only ever felt ephemeral. My ownership of it waxed and waned like the moon. I grew used to having a knot in my stomach all those times I didn’t feel like I belonged to myself. Its powerful that in a land ever-proclaiming its freedom, we are so hungry to put laws on bodies. Last year, US politicians introduced 550 abortion restrictions and 510 anti-LGBTQ bills. It's hard to hear those numbers and believe there could ever be enough soot in the world to dust for all the fingerprints of people touching bodies that don’t belong to them. In this work, Eve from the creation story is sitting on the floor of a modern day apartment. They are ripping a bag of grocery store apples in half, sending seeds flying across the room. In this act, shirking the expected and anticipated role of womanhood.