/bodycrumbs

(2019-ongoing)

/bodycrumbs began as a meandering, labyrinthine exploration of internal selfhood – questioning what it means to be, and tracing how all the intersecting, overlapping, conflicting parts of myself coexist together. More recently, the imagery and motivation behind the work have morphed towards a more uncomfortable exploration of external (m)otherhood – questioning who I am through the eyes of others and how I extend or project myself outwards now that I am a mother. This project has been a multi-year labor of love, and ‘labor’ is a key term I hope to unpack in this work; how can traditional forms of domestic labor (like sewing, weaving, mending, quilting) become vehicles for conveying meaning about embodiment and selfhood? While creating the work shared in this space, the ritualistic processes of image and object construction have invoked both a productive form of spiritual contemplation and a (perhaps) counter-productive remove from reality (read: repression, avoidance, *anxiously laughing emoji goes here*).

I am trying to tether myself.