In Constant Climax, 2020
In the USA, people born of migration - ancestral, first-generation, forced or chosen - occupy a privileged space where they have freedom to express. Art becomes a sanctuary, reclaiming the honor of tradition. Like clay, tradition is set on fire. It changes over time, hardening but more fragile, frozen in a ceramic state between immortality and quick death. The inundation of assumptions behind an ostensibly simple question of belonging climax to a breaking point. This project challenge stereotypes of obedience and patriarchy the expectation that a minority artist should create works that represent their “otherness” in order to neatly satisfy an outsider’s expectation of the artist’s identity.
In the USA, people born of migration - ancestral, first-generation, forced or chosen - occupy a privileged space where they have freedom to express. Art becomes a sanctuary, reclaiming the honor of tradition. Like clay, tradition is set on fire. It changes over time, hardening but more fragile, frozen in a ceramic state between immortality and quick death. The inundation of assumptions behind an ostensibly simple question of belonging climax to a breaking point. This project challenge stereotypes of obedience and patriarchy the expectation that a minority artist should create works that represent their “otherness” in order to neatly satisfy an outsider’s expectation of the artist’s identity.
