Between Nets and Figures

Bodily; suggestive and alluring, my work is comprised of torso-like forms with breasts, belly, and pelvis. The imagery comes from a lexicon of figures that I began developing during a short period of time when I was immobilized by an illness. Experiencing physical limitations from my sickness, I instinctively began to draw and abstract the shape of my own body in order to reconnect and reclaim it. The forms transformed and began to closely relate to decorative objects rather than living beings. Printed in black ink, they were Rorschach tests playing on subliminal associations. It was through this work that I laid the foundation for the research I have continued during my graduate studies; where I explore the perplexities of femininity created by the societal decorum of feminine beauty and the conflation of expression and repression found in the female form.