Do You Wonder, 2011, Lemp Brewery, St. Louis
Queering is an iterative process of relations used to challenge a theory that is not stable to begin with. I see this opportunity to question the power structure that has an effect on how people relate to others, determine their feeling of place in the world, and make connections from their own position of familiarity. This familiarity begins and expands with an acknowledged understanding of a person’s own surroundings and culture. The knowledge of who we are is attainable through the framework informed by the places in which we exist in and around. I am interested in how boundaries form our identities and in people who feel a disbelonging to the place they reside in.
As an artist, I build queer spaces. They are public, have no fixed identity marked by a community for any given length of time, and are not queer in sexuality, but rather the space in ideology is queered (disrupted). The spaces force an effort at disorienting a viewer from his/her familiarity. They address and ask questions understanding place and boundaries, forcing an effort at disorienting a viewer from his/her familiarity. I present situations by inserting my audience into my own story. I reference the Israeli/ Palestinian conflict as a mode of directing the physical experience of displacement or disorientation to a distant, yet relatable, traumatic example of these feelings. With this attitude, I openly discuss issues of loss over love and a desire to obtain love. My attention is on flattening the differences between the boundaries that divide us as people.
As an artist, I build queer spaces. They are public, have no fixed identity marked by a community for any given length of time, and are not queer in sexuality, but rather the space in ideology is queered (disrupted). The spaces force an effort at disorienting a viewer from his/her familiarity. They address and ask questions understanding place and boundaries, forcing an effort at disorienting a viewer from his/her familiarity. I present situations by inserting my audience into my own story. I reference the Israeli/ Palestinian conflict as a mode of directing the physical experience of displacement or disorientation to a distant, yet relatable, traumatic example of these feelings. With this attitude, I openly discuss issues of loss over love and a desire to obtain love. My attention is on flattening the differences between the boundaries that divide us as people.
