artistic motivation cannot be described through essayed measures,
but rather as
a slackly connected series of auditory images, visual sounds, day dreams
and
pluralistic understanding of fluid identities.
regarding the technical aspects of my art, i work in three specific
areas, namely, acrylic on canvas, photography, and fashion
design/construction. i have chosen these three forms of
expression due to the richness which they afford my processes of
imagination and abstraction and their direct connection to the
tactile world.
in focusing on the main thematic representations which my present
work treats, i would identify two loosely
bound categorical explanations.
in respect to my work in the performance community, within my painting
and designs, i frequently strive to express different cultural attitudes
regarding the connections between sexuality, gender-roles and
performance art. some of my pieces might be seen as
representative of deconstructive methods, aimed at
society’s often rigid qualifications directed towards femininity, as well as
maleness.
overall, my driving speculative belief within this arena is as follows:
if numbers may be categorized as an infinite system, why must we
constantly operate within social binaries? (i.e. masculine-feminine,
heterosexual-homosexual, etc.)
it is for this reason that i strive to paint and photograph my fellow drag
performers. i
intend to capture their passions, their energies and their responses to the
construction of the worlds around them. in my opinion, drag
performance has been an undervalued and misunderstood form of artistic
expression for centuries and it is my aim to modify this lapse of attention
to such a rich tradition.
finally, the last main theme which i treat within my work is demonstrative
of
visualizing color, pattern, or lack thereof, and angles within my
fashion design. i constantly consider the disjointedness of
gendered bodies and the mass media fashion market which both
‘normalizes’ and manipulates public acceptation and abhorrence of
self-representation through fashion. i believe in an antiquated, yet
somehow postmodern sense of beauty, where division and
separateness are the lines which we draw and tear with our cultural
scissors.
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