Error/Alter - Transfers
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“Error/Alter” allowed me to engage viscerally with the transformation of the body. I chose to work with error prone methods, resulting in the birth of hundreds of alters. By collaborating with mass media, paint, jelly pads, detritus and all manner of mark making materials I was able to play God with the way layers and transfers morphed the physical form - crafting silhouettes that have become indiscernible and suggestive.
In walking away from my career and shedding heteronormative cis/colonial/capitalist society I also set alight a conflagration of labels. I was once able-bodied, high-achieving, well-paid and femme presenting. I have had to rediscover my identity - and in doing so have rejoiced in claiming no titles. I owe you no discernment of the bodies/gender/identities held within, they are expressions of transformation, caught in a random moment of their becoming, muted but still chaotic.
I have adorned these pieces with gestural drawings of my people, captured at cafes, late nights and sweet dinners. Lost layers under found. Is identity decided by the self, or by those who perceive us? By the DNA chains and ancestries that became us? At what point have we become ourselves?