Red titled works will be at Boston show

My work looks at the contradictions between the culturally sanctioned perceptions of fragile femininity and the strongly transformative and oftentimes grueling physiological experience of menstruation. With imagery that teeters between precariously contained sanitization and suppressed rage as a consequence of gendered subjugation, I aim to convey both the brutalistic realities of biological determinism (maternalistic/reproductive expectations) as well as the frustrations of a gendered body that is restricted by its edifice. My intentions are to re-contextualize menstruation as a rigorous corporeality, one which contains simultaneous emotional states of ambivalence, shame, masochiscm, elation, anxiety, dissociation, as well as a mystical kind of feral liberation. I create figures with superheroine underpinings, nodding to She-Ra and the women cartoonists movement, utilizing dark humor that celebrates the powerful and unedited mess of menstruation while also positing a strong female archtype that rejects the societally imposed physical obligations of someone who posesses a “womb.”

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