Crying Makes You Feel Better

"I am a multidisciplinary queer visual artist who focuses on the self interacting with those around her. My work attempts to visually represent the fluidity of experiences and relationships through the lens of a visual perception disorder. I address and rebel the conservative male influence on female objectivity and refract the male gaze as I attempt to return to the self. I primarily work with oils on metallized mylar and mdf board, while also incorporating sculpture, photography, and digital manipulation, creating an experiential and experimental interaction with my work.

I began using metallized mylar as a primary medium after I was diagnosed with DPDR, or Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder, in 2019 following sexual and reproductive trauma. This disorder causes the world to seem dreamlike and delusive, familiar places become unfamiliar, familiar people become unrecognizable. Mylar reflects and distorts its environment, much in the same way my brain does. My work is primarily figurative, representations of those around me, but I never force the work to stay within such parameters."

– Madeleine Brice