ARTIST STATEMENT
This artwork is a synthesis of knowledge, focus and contexts: my growing knowledge of being an outsider in contemporary culture of rejection. Race, religion, gender, size, dress, sexuality and even beauty standards, are dictated societal norms.
And the worst part about it is, most of humanity agrees.
Growing up watching television shows and movies that show how 'perfect’ people’s lives should be, gets tiring. According to the media, as long as you’re straight, cisgender and white, you’re superior: you are 'normal’. Anything outside of that mould … doesn’t fit -with the rest of society.
I don't apologise for who I am.
ARTWORK PROCESS
An uplifting project. I began with a large sculpture -using my hands to create a non-gender being. Then I wrote, prolifically, all the 'disturbing' raw ideas about who I am. I put these in a space I created -a quiet, dark, small, contemplative space to interview people like me -and unlike me. I developed questions to ask people and informed them of this work going public with all their personal information -only putting people into the final work that agreed. I wrote a song to accompany my work and recorded it. I put the work together using film editing.
