Exploring bodies' capacities to expand beyond themselves-- queer figures as they relate to one another and natural environments. Our relationship to othered human and non-human bodies is crucial in reversing climate change. My work, grounded in painting, destabilizes the rectangular shape of a painting. I  transform plexiglass and canvas from dumpsters, emphasizing the contradiction between fetishized landscapes and environmental destruction. The cut-out shapes now hang, casting shifting shadows, blurring the figure and setting. The translucent grounds of the paintings lend a skin-like quality to the paint, while the reflected light through the brushwork creates layered depth. Contour drawings and loose, expressive brushwork that blur boundaries between bodies and landscapes. Material and visual sensuality clash against rough abstract mark-making as a brutish mode of expression. Ultimately, implied female figures and dramatic landscapes invite nuanced consideration of the intersections between bodies, desire, and the natural world. 



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