Indovina
I / DON’T / OWN / ANY / PETS
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I AM / THE ONLY / ANIMAL
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IN / MY LIFE
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Artist statement: THE ONLY ANIMAL, as a series, has to do with my body's relationship to sexual taboos, especially when it comes to the idea of becoming something "sub-human." These postcard-sized artworks, using graphite and cutouts of printed letters, embody the loneliness that comes from being new to a portion of your sexual identity that is uncommon in the world at large, being "the only 'animal,'" in a sense. In this way, these pieces show what it feels like to live in my body: the isolation that comes from a constant incongruence between my sexual desires and those of the people around me. Sexual deviance in this series is symbolized by the cow, which is both docile and wild, submissive and primal. These pieces were inspired by the idea of making Image:Text digital collage practices physical by rendering them in graphite and printing and cutting out bold letters to allow the artworks to communicate on a textual level.