I often consider the body—how our bodies intertwine, interact, and enter each other. I explore how my transness affects my relationship with my body and how it affects how other people perceive me. I find myself using the nude male form recurrently in my imagery. Is this because of a desire to be with men, sexually and emotionally? Or does this obsession go deeper, reflecting an uncomfortability with my own body and a want to emulate the traditional masculinity of “real men”? Or… maybe dicks are just funny?

Utilizing various metalworking techniques, enameling, and fiber manipulation, I create wearables and objects which explore this thin line between desire and obsession. Metal is hard and rigid, whereas fiber is soft and malleable, and although these are not absolute. With the right handling of material, metal can become soft and sensual, and fiber can become rigid and hard. Considering the flexible nature of these materials, I relate them to the queer body and play with their properties like one plays with gender.

My object work tends to look more towards my inner psyche, my experience with bipolar disorder, and how the unstable nature of my mental state leads to instability in my personal, social, and sexual life. My existence as a trans gay man is inseparable from my identity as a whole and therefore also ingrained into the objects that I make. Faggy, obsessive, and unashamedly sexual. All things I have been called, but also apt descriptors of my art.