Through multiple self-compositing and anatomical fragmentation, I engage in dialogue about normality and how power dynamics are constructed. Much of my subject matter – such as maleness, race and hybridity – develops from personal history but decenters identity and experience into a public space of encounter. Often using the light box format to suggest a film still and advertisement (both allotting only part of something larger to leave the viewer to imagine the rest), many of the characters I employ return in different images to construct narrative. Through theatrical embodiment and dismemberment, these figures are derived both from fictional reconstructions and biographical history.
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To read a recent interview with San Francisco Bay Guardian, click here