I frequently return to the foundation of my art practice: sculpture, painting, and textiles. Through these mediums, I explore my sexuality through a queer lens and my disability, embracing bold colors, love, desire, and the tactile pleasures of nudity and sensation.
My visual vocabulary is evolving through several ongoing series, including Problems. This piece features sculptures that resemble oversized lollipops, though this resemblance was unintentional. These works are made from roofing nails, with the heads covered in epoxy putty.
I remain conflicted about calling them "lollipops," as I never intended to create candy-like objects. Instead, I aimed to explore " the idea" of the head as an object of adoration and transformation. As the series grew, making each head special became increasingly complex.
I'm reconsidering the term “lollipops” and calling them Adorbs, a hybrid of the words “adore” and “orbs.” This new term better captures the emotional and visual essence of the work: the act of admiration (adore) and the mysterious, almost celestial quality of the sculptural forms (orbs). Adorbs suggests intimacy and mystery, inviting a deeper reading of the objects as fetishized forms, vessels of desire, and sites of queerness and transformation.
Each head is made with a combination of materials, including plastic, acrylic, chrome pigments, heat-sensitive paints, found objects, photo snippets, Shrinky dinks, textiles, and more. The repetition of these Adorbs reflects my fascination with variation, obsession, and the seductive challenge of making the same thing appear endlessly different.
