“Queerness is essentially about the rejection of a here and now and an insistence on potentiality or concrete possibility for another world.” - José Esteban Muñoz

Since individual experience of one’s identity can be an ongoing process of discovery, my work centers on the impermanent physicality of gender expression. This complex aspect of humanity finds representational space through different paths: drawing, print, and textiles. Each medium makes the interior visible, turning the deeply personal into self evidence. The actual process of making a garment reflects the subtle, and sometimes more direct choices available in both the construction of clothing as well as identity. Specificity occurs in details of clothing, where there is shared commonality across varying experiences of gender. Materials and imagery reflect an unfinished state, their existence on the verge of becoming fully realized. This ephemeral state of progress is most necessary for the act of discovery, and for the impossibility of simple identification. Excitement results from the anticipation of possible outcomes.