Statement
My miniature figurative sculptures present sensual and joyful scenes of rest and interdependence. I weave directly onto delicate porcelain structures with cotton and silk thread to create patterned costumes or coverings. The sculptures are often assembled from separate or broken ceramic limbs which are bound together by the woven components. Recurring motifs include the hybrid body and the bedridden body, wherein figures intertwine in gestures both erotic and assistive, knitted to each other and their furni-ture supports. These vignettes celebrate a support system that in my life has been both social (ie. care providers, animals, family, friends, lovers) and designed (furniture, mobility aids, architectural features). The miniature scale is a nod to votive objects that were historically placed on altars by the devout as pleas for relief from pain, illness, or deformity; here, however, by referencing familiar moments of physical fragility and mutual support, I’m hoping to revise problematic stereotypes about the disability communi-ty—chiefly that we are pitiable, passive, cursed, the object of fetish or disgust—and illuminate instead what makes each of us uniquely desirable, funny, and powerful.
Disability: rare form of Muscular Dystrophy
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