Living With SCI
Is a documentation of the trauma that happens to my body in areas that have become paralyzed, that I can not feel like an able-bodied person. Living with a spinal cord injury has many problems and many pitfalls but one of the biggest visual and physical experiences of this affliction is not having normal sensation. So my body can experience pain that my brain cannot understand and the skin and nails get ripped off of my body without my knowledge. So I document this phenomenon and try to show the beauty and disgust within this experience. I have taken these images and printed them on non-photographic materials. Using digital sublimation on chiffon and iridescent fabric, I create a pliable image that hangs, droops, sags, and folds in unconventional ways that brakes the language between image and object hood. To complicate the situation I create fabric sculptures that are mounted behind or lay beneath the image that creates an abstraction of the content and the context of the image that breaks reality and the expected. Which allows the space I’ve created to float between installation, sculpture, and photography on top of a fabric scape that pushes photography into the third dimension.
2017-2021
