Artist Statement
I create images that animate a poetic understanding of organs, bones, tissues and fluids. In the creation of these prints and drawings I collage disparate images together composing metaphors to illustrate my own sense of body. Found drawings of flowers and tails and megaphones are integrated with appropriated dissection diagrams of the physical interior. The medical illustrations come from historical and contemporary anatomy books. I find anatomy drawings compelling.
I am not so much consumed by the details of bodily function or the articulation of each part. My interest lies in simply understanding what it is that lies beneath my skin. My internal body is a concealed space that is only accessible to me through sensations and imagination. Dissection drawings allow me to imagine and visualize the interior of my body. I take these anatomy diagrams, strip them of their systematic labeling and redraw the organs and bones in my own hand.
The corporeal parts morph into foreign species and objects: the heart becomes a megaphone; a spine grows petals; intestines morph into a tail. My renderings depart from the function of medical illustration to offer a poetic, sensorial reading of the interior.
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