Artist Statement

I play with languages - visual, written, and spoken. By following language across times and cultures, I seek out moments of miscegenation and mistranslation. These slippages become generative opportunities in my art practice where re-inscription of alternate voices, writings, and imaginations become possible.

In recent works, prosthetics and live animals become the building blocks of a language performed. This language - neither written nor spoken, or perhaps at once both - is a response to conditions of beauty and violence, both linguistic and corporeal. It also becomes a means to search for alternative voices more resonant and resilient than rational, articulate speech.

Imbedded within my work is my body -- a body that is marked by gender and race. These signifiers become points of engagement with critical discourses around cultural capital, traditional knowledge / authenticity projected onto (native informant) bodies, and mutable readings of bodies in transition and translation.

* Great care is taken during the performances so that any live animal used is treated with the utmost respect.