I am curious about the body as a consumer, in viewing the body as a transitional, malleable space that consumes and flushes out emotions, energy, thoughts, food, drink, experiences, product. This work explores and questions the individual in relation to the internal and external, and how objects, product, and societal consumerist customs digest, linger, manipulate, and pass through the body and self. 

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I am asking questions of visibility, of layers, of functions.... How to realize that many dimensions exist at the same time now? How to exist in your own reality knowing that everyone is also in their own reality? I am questioning the processes within consumerism that keep us tangled together and that we are all affected by- systems that consume a world bigger than us: a space created for all garbage to gather in landfills, a space created for the furniture to be manufactured that is now in your home, a space created for food to be packaged in order for people to then buy and eat. How does the self and body react, absorb and live alongside these processes?

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My desire and my intention is to grow into my understanding of spaces, processes, and matter that changes, converts, and influences my body- that creates feeling, expression, survival, presence, and visibility, whether that be tangibly or intangibly.  What is manipulating me?  What am I choosing to be manipulated by or unconsciously aware of that I am consumed by?

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How does living in a consumerist system within society affect our perceptions and our knowledge of our own selves, our relationships, and the earth?

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How can we shift processes into better tending to the re-cycling, circular life force of the self, of the earth, of our very own entanglement within nature? 

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How can we unleash the undefined, the ever-flowing continuum of movement, of emergence?

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How can we further be aware of and tap into the power that the very elements we are influenced by and living with are already providing for us? 

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