Statement
My machine made body establishes that I am a cyborg. The mental body is whole but the connection between the mental and physical is severed. I am constantly reconstructing, rearranging and relying on synthetically made T. My body stays attached though attachment cords, the neck which holds up my head has gone and all that's left is my voice ball. The ball cloud is an identifier of my body and can be seen moving through skin, and engulfing different sections. It is also used as the play between natural and machine.
Placing myself in simple farm land scenes without industry or machines, I become the machine. The body is in nature. The body goes so far into nature that it is free of gender. It is a very tense play, like a game of tennis.
I have simplified body parts to their basic form so that they can be clouds, balls, boobs or dicks. Deconstructing the attributes of painting to make an object, I simultaneously stay grounded through the formalities of painting but through a new grammar of intent. Am I deconstructing or reconstructing my disembodiment? It is the play of these two binaries which furthers the irony.
I use the machine in a performance based way. The images are pressed, or they are repressed. They are concepts of a focused repetition which allow me to explore line, form and perspectives in varying degrees. The images are only realized through their attachment with their first; the body is only realized through its development over time. The space between the images allows for the phantom body to live.
Out of representation, the absence translates my trans body. I am giving an unrealized body an image.
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