Artist statement
Beauty, gender, body and the grotesque are continued dialogues within my work. I am enthralled by the repulsive, the bizarre, and the objectness of bodies and the contradictions that both have to art historically and culturally. The Jamaican vernacular, gendered cultural symbolisms and stereotypes serve as a platform for these discussions. I am enthused by words, conditions, and experiences that objectify and abjectify.
Menstrual documents, cuts, bruises, language, feminine excrement, peeled skins, bleached skins, decadence, nippled and vulvic forms, the feminine, disease, feminine motifs, and accents are reoccurring images within my work. Referencing beauty through the use of the grotesque but visceral, confrontational, and deconstructed.
