Marked, 2018-2020
Analog & Digital Photographic Processes, Performance, Installation

Birthmark, I
Double panel, Dye sublimation print on aluminum
24" x 30"
2018

Birthmark, II (cut-out)
Dye sublimation print on aluminum, latex paint, wood
20" x 26" x 24"
2018

Marked combines traditional photographic techniques with contemporary digital processes, performance, and sculpture. The title refers to a prominent birthmark on my neck, which has drawn verbal and physical abuse from strangers. Reproductions of the birthmark’s shape and color appear throughout the work. In Marked, I consider ways we are marked from birth, specifically through gender. Birthmarks are like political boundaries on a map, expressing the desire to include and exclude, to mark belonging through exclusion and differentiation. The work explores the parallels between patriarchal attempts to subjugate and exploit the land and the body. This is visualized through the demarcation of the birthmark to represent what is through what isn’t.

The landscape and the body are tropes represented through photographic surveys, and both raise questions of power, representation, and ideology. The American West’s photographic surveys sought to document, aestheticize, and colonize the lands and the bodies viewed through the camera’s lens. Photographs of the landscape and the body still carry this trace of privilege and propaganda. Marked responds critically to this history by examining the fraught relationship between the land and the body and their abstraction by both patriarchy and photography.

Opaque Bodies, I
Video stills
Archival inkjet prints
20" x 52"
2019

Untitled, I (in-camera masking)
4x5 color positive film
Archival inkjet print
24" x 30"
2019

Untitled, II (in-camera masking)
4x5 color positive film
Archival inkjet print
24" x 30"
2019

Untitled (studio process)
Archival inkjet prints
40" x 14"
2019

1 Dark Slide / 65 Exposures
Silver gelatin prints
Single image 8" x 10"
Installation view 58" x 128"
2019

Laser Cut Dark Slides
4x5 dark slides
5" x 7"
2018

Skull Valley, UT
Archival inkjet prints
42" x 10"
2020

Untitled, III (in-camera masking)
4x5 color positive film
Archival inkjet prints
32" x 16"
2020

Untitled, IV (in-camera masking)
4x5 color positive film
Archival inkjet prints
32" x 16"
2020

Opaque Bodies, II
Video stills
Archival inkjet prints
15" x 30"
2019

Collected Targets
Double Panel, Dye sublimation print on aluminum
24" x 30"
2020

Self Portrait with Bodysuit and Green Screen
4x5 color positive film
Archival inkjet print
32" x 40"
2019