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CAMOUFLAGED
2022
Camouflaged is a body of work that explores the effects of war and separation on women and children. The separated self that splits us in two, creating the chaos of being in one place, torn that we are not in that other place too. The constant struggle to be present. Body is a representation of humanity but specifically the female. This is a self portrait of the military wife and mother. The ongoing search for words that define self separated from “other”.
The body narrates this story. She has informed this practice when the mind could not process and for the journey she is wounded but strong. The journey includes identity as self, to wife, to mother. As self to body in relationship, to body that cares for another. Each of these figures represent women in our culture, how we view the spousal role, the mother and the female self. More specifically these figures represent the woman in war, literally and figuratively and the role PTSD plays in relationship to the mind and body.
The work asks the viewer to “dance” alongside in relationship, feeling spaces within the work’s body as well as within themselves. Feeling the pull from one part of oneself to the other while being invited to center in the now. Two sides, one angled and sharp, the other organic and round. There is beauty in chaos, an organized jungle of eye candy.
rialto theatre
2025
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show design
2025
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environmental design
2020
PLAYER
You want me to speak
You want me to write down my thoughts
You want to assess me through a pre written test
You want bragging rights for helping me get through your system
And yet you never look into what I put right in front of you
The images that tell the story
The images that display my intelligence
The images that spew my distrust and disgust with the complex
The images that show you that I am an intelligent thinking being
deserves to be seen and heard
My photos
My writing
The scribbles on the side of my essay
The tattoos
The way I put my makeup on
The “hidden” messages on the bathroom walls
The way I dress
The images I choose whenever given the chance…
They tell my story
The one you so badly want to hear
Do you see them?
Are they not in the format you desire?
Can you not give me “credit” for something unscannable?
This is me, not all of me but the me I am willing to share at this point of knowing who I am.
It’s easier to tell you this in images,
it’s easier to tell the truth by throwing paint and tearing a piece of paper in half.
It’s easier to be seen standing next to what feels safe.
If you ask me what education has done to me as a creative child,
As a creative being...this is my answer as an adult.
And now I teach the adults how to process what they do to others.
Where that comes from within themselves.
How to work from the inside out, to better SEE and HEAR the beings in front of them, taking all they are giving, harmful, true and often well intended.
Now an adult too, I find myself wrestling with that same traumatized youth.
Seeking to embrace how the “unusual” brain processes and how it can be assessed in a world it’s not invited into.
Being told that “this isn’t a mind map.
Do it again...no one's MIND works like this.
Make your mind work like all the other artist’s minds.
We are different.
I want you to be the same as me
is what I heard.
