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BISEXUAL THOUGHT DAUGHTER
As an artist, I play between the history of surrealism and contemporary modes as a way to explore narrative storylines. My work involves a space filled with symbolic imagery that helps build a narrative relating to personal healing, human connection, and a commentary on social concerns. Figurative language emerges to a literal sense within my surreal pieces, with a combination of exaggerated shapes of objects and a vibrant color palette.
My current art series, Bisexual Thought Daughter, is an invitation to celebrate bisexuality as a complex, dynamic identity, while recognizing and dismantling the biases that often surround it. As the daughter of conservative immigrant parents from Georgia, homophobia is normalized in my household. The venus flytrap, a carnivorous plant that thrives when fed its natural food sources, symbolizes the care needed for one’s queer identity to flourish. The reference to Venus, the planet of love, intertwined with the flytrap’s sharp, eyelash/teeth-like hairs, captures the tension between love, acceptance to identity, and external constraints. In my series, the green skinned girl represented is a character I named Margo, brings the anxiety of my sexuality to human-form. The flytraps are named Jasper, a representation of my queer narratives to fit into the form of a plant. While I bring these characters to life, along with others, it helps identify queerness within my own forms of labeling.