ARTIST STATEMENT
I am a physically disabled multidisciplinary worldbuilder. Constructing crip-centric liberated zones through photography, collage, printmaking, sculpture and installation they become surreal, radically inclusive environments through which my alter ego Lady can travel. Liberated from the oppression of exclusionary architecture ubiquitous to urban environments, Lady existing as a single breezeblock, defies the truth of her structure, traveling freely throughout my constructions. I am building myself an accessible place to call home, to explore uninhibited, to process the exclusion these inaccessible structures implement. Using the motifs that obstruct access to subvert understandings of hostility and inaccess, I am finding beauty in the reappropriation of these barriers. Activating traditions of Neo Dadaism my work is formed with a similar rejection of the status quo. Fascinated by the perceptual tendency of apophenia, I am interested in seeing how the isolation, manipulation or repetition of the barriers I manipulate subvert one's understanding of access through the building and installation of unconventional spaces.