pulp

To pulp something is to press and shred it until the material no longer resembles its original form. The result is a soft, workable mass that can be reconfigured into new objects, like paper.

I consider this series to be my own creative pulp. Materials have been broken down and reworked, and the result is a series of fleshy, bodily forms that can not help but emphasize the materials they are made from.

As observers of these pieces, we are very conscious of what they are and what they are not. The materials are stretched, torn, reassembled, hidden, and even dissected, mimicking elements of the human body and how it heals itself. This collection is meant to play with this established connection. Seeing an object that we have viscerally deemed “bodily” in a punctured or deconstructed state leaves us in morbid awe of our own body and its potential destruction.