Printmaking
Fabrication
Photography
Installation Art
A multimedia exhibition intertwining genre-defining classics and archival footage with contemporary media, projected over a series of prints. Images are taken by Chantal Regnault - from Voguing and the House Ballroom Scene of New York 1989-92 - rescanned, ink-blotted, overlayed, and obscured to create a colorfol portrait and celebration of Vogue and its impact on contemporary pop culture.
A series of sculptures presented as a media campaign advertising ‘KISS ME SUCKERS’ - sculpted onto binkies, each representing different archetypes of feminie sexuality, fetishes, and fixations. The series features six custom models - adorned with piercings and modifications historically performed to mutilate, to shame, or to signify status and beauty. Customers may choose from a wide variety - a “pick your poison” of brash presentation.
An experimental photographic series exploring ritual practices and themes of purity- personal, societal, and religious pressures regarding what it means to be “virtuous” in ones conduct. As the objects are dyed blue - a reverse baptism is performed - altering their previously virgin state as the imagined participant strays from the values embodied by these totems.
In this piece, the dye used serves as a stand in for Indigo Dye - historically embodying wealth for its desirability and associated with a state of higher consciousness or link to foresight and intuition. The color blue, often associated with the sky and the sea, signifies wisdom, tranquility, and freedom.
The color blue is intentionally concealed for an element of visual surprise as the garments are progressively overtaken by the darker tone.