Systems (2024 - Current)
My current body of work consists of a series of blueprints about gender non-conformity. This work considers the nature of broken systems, and investigates the roles of enculturation, politics and faith as broken systems in America. This infrastructure is diverse and complex. So complex in fact, that in it’s totality and specificity it is ununderstandable. We require a series of specialized workers who understand their own offshoots of infrastructure; plumbers, computer engineers, construction workers, ect. As a non-binary person, particularly in South Dakota, I often find myself existing in a broken off shoot or completely outside of conventional social structures. In this work I take on the role of gender archeologist, excavating and diagraming the queer history of gender.