Internality Exposed
When I was two, I was diagnosed with Classical Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (cEDS), a connective tissue disorder characterized by chronic pain and fatigue, loose joints and ligaments, poor wound healing, and highly fragile skin. “Internality Exposed” engages the notion of the body as inherently broken, subject to core structural faults beginning in my genetic code and radiating into every minute facet of my body. I contend with my corporeal form as subject to the unflinching harshness and danger of the external world.
As a medical mystery, I turn to my imagination to fill in gaps where science has failed me, seeking self-determination through active and responsive creation. Thus, engaging space as an atmosphere in response to organism-based structures, softness acts in defiance of structure as the works materially wrest within themselves, fighting for definition and stability in an ever-flowing field of internal luminosity. Fundamentally pushing what can be understood as recognizably human, the works of “Internality Exposed” push the bounds of biomorphic construction and personification, engaging atmosphere and spatial construction to blur the lines between body and world.
