I am a visual arts student, due to graduate officially :) in spring of 2015. Attending ECUAD has drastically altered the way I interact with and consider the world, and I believe has made me much more proactive in going about asking "why" as a general philosophy of life; prior to Emily Carr I tended to ruminate without action and felt largely helpless in the face of seemingly endless challenges to my human spirit.
The staff, instructors and technicians, and my chosen medium of clay, have given me a much needed outlet, and has done wonders for my confidence in both my making and my thinking. Overall, I feel incredibly lucky to be here.
Normalized to the point of invisibility, animals and women share common ground in their mutal state of "otherness" against the backdrop of predominantly and traditionally phallocentric societies. Striving to avoid the didactic or lecturing position of "all knowing", I seek instead to open the conversation and to begin to deconstruct the highly constructed role of the feminine and feral as objects of both fear and desire.
Inspired by the human kidney and its highly complex functions within the system of "technology" which makes up the human form. How is it we have priviledged machines over our physical selves? Why?