Artist Statement:

Art-making for me feels like a really, really big pot. I am a witch and, carrying my big wooden spoon, stir the neon-pink broth around, churning ideas and trying my hardest to just get really, really weird with it. My Bridgework tenure for this body of work reflects a time of transformation. I found myself again outside of school for the first time and found friends, a love for neon pink, a transformative sense of self, and a drive towards achieving my dreams. Like a big pot, full of ingredients from some medieval villages or witches brew, these artworks represent a constant churning of ideas that circle between anxiety, stress, love, exuberance, and an uncompromising queerness that has been my anchor. I place these art pieces as key scenes in a personal mythology. Through my trans nudes, my Morgans’ confrontational gaze let an audience know that what I let you see is self constructed as much as it is a stream of consciousness, as much a love of my body as a damning condemnation of a world that sees the trans body as grotesque. Through art and constructed worlds, my heroines, my Morgans, enact their own self-preservation through abundant self love. They do not ask others to love them, they instead love themselves and take everything else as a bonus. May we all find love in ourselves in a world that aims to stamp it out, and may that love shine a bright neon-pink.