About

I am a student of photography at Union College (‘25). My work is composed of self-portraiture, rephotography, and photographic sculpture. I destroy or change previous work to find a new vantage on familiar material. These techniques create a separate self, allowing for the sublimation of self-destructive impulse into dispossessed violence against a photo-body. 

Expressed in this work is a paradox of power and impotence–the viewer can look with impunity, as I have, but can go no further. Art demands some amount of distance between the artist, subject, and viewer; some boundary of interpretation separates those positions. I am interested in reflecting this relationship as a queer and auto-erotic dynamic that confuses notions of a singular and fixed identity. My practice is a re-staging of these conflicting roles onto myself, where I can engage with the dual catharsis of domination and submission within one body. This exchange plays out at the intersections of sex, kink, violence, trans-femininity, and the voyeurism of the photographic eye.