ANIMAL

MAGNETISM

Clean Space Gallery, Sherman Studio Art Center, Columbus OH

October 13-14 2024

My work directly challenges the line between disciplines, combining materials and techniques in unexpected and unorthodox ways. I am focused on structural phenomena, studying how different media react and interact. The division between media is constructed, and it is important to explore how our taxonomies of material limit their applications. Our systems of knowledge are not inherent rules but superimposed onto the world, our categories imperfect. As a queer person, I am uniquely positioned to see the definitional grid that is drawn over the wild landscape, my own existence in conflict with dominant systems of understanding. My work pushes against the craft canon, creating space for new systems of understanding that decenter the dominant approach to making.