“Inter/Intra” was my Bachelors of Fine Arts thesis show. Below is my accompanying statement.

My work explores what it means to be queer in a post-religious mindset. I aim to learn how to translate those habits and rituals of worshipping a higher power into thoughts and actions of worshipping one’s self. At the same time my work is helping me heal through the grief that comes with losing family members to rejection and to death. I have altered old family photographs, created my own symbolic artifacts, and wrote a lot about my feelings to try and figure all of this out, and through these slow and thoughtful ruminations, I think I have been able to better come to terms with it all. 

I am working with a variety of materials and processes, including traditional crochet lace making, photo manipulation (both digital and analog), writing, and painting. I use these materials as a way to try and dig through the shame and guilt I have from growing up queer in a religious family. I want to find out how it has affected me and how I can heal from it. I draw heavy influence from churches I used to go to to worship, and religious sites I have visited throughout my life, both in their grandeur and in their simplicity. I am also influenced by all of the queer and trans people I have met throughout my life, and try to honor the legacy of queer people that have come before me.