Candy Flipping

Turley Gallery, Hudson, NY

July 2nd-July 31, 2022

Explore the human body and psychic potency 
Gender-fluid, demonic love, torture, sex, and mayhem
My own queerness

My physical discrete objects
Consumption when I was a kid
Cheap, brightly colored
And stuck with me

I desire physical validation
Sexual pleasure
Power through
Coded language
In culture

Light is provocative
And needs to be seen
With potential appeal
That could remain silent

I explore themes related to the human body; I often invent figures that are placed in proximity to images culled from both popular, and esoteric culture. I mine internet search engines, often with a general concept or reference in mind, and then select subjects not based on my personal attachment or relationship to them, but rather seek as objectively as possible, for themes, motifs, and images that contain strong resonance and psychic potency.

Invented figures are subsequently juxtaposed with visuals sourced from exterior subject matter. Moons, candles, palm trees, swords, and other subjects contained within my personal lexicon are anthropomorphized, and placed next to gender-fluid, demonic and human subjects, all engaged in various stages of love, torture, sex, and mayhem.

The hyperbolic maximalism of my subjects suggest extreme states of being, transforming the works into an ontological reflection of my own queerness, humanity, and personal identity.

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