SCULPTURE
Project Total Yang: The Head
Project Total Yang: Hanging Fresco
Persona (Film Still)
Molloy/Moran
The Nudes
Sundry Wood
Slip of the Tongue
You Or Me
The body/the whale
The Nudes
To fill a Gap / Insert the Thing that caused it ←
From left: Nude #4, Nude #3, On my volcano grows the grass
2022
Fresco arch, steel cart, plexiglass, inkjet print
24 x 18 x 46 in
2023
Fresco object, steel cart, plexiglass, inkjet print, aqua resin
27 x 25 x 45 in
The series performs the queer body as a dormant volcano turned active, or an active volcano that is not erupting but is expected to erupt again. Wheeled sculptures are mounted with fresco objects, as well as with images of erupting volcanoes, Pompeian frescoes, and submission wrestling erotica.
The works position the immediacy and impulsiveness of desire in relation to the more expansive notions of time invoked by volcanic activity and the preserved remains of Pompeii. ‘Ancient’ art processes that are distinguished by their capacity to survive catastrophic destruction- like fresco- offer up moments that disrupt our sense of how time scales.