This body serves as target practice for you to direct your outrage.

This body draws so much anger from those I have been trained to desire.

This body has learned its lesson.

This body was taken from me so long ago, though it was never mine to begin with.

How thin do you have to be to be loved?

How does one live in a body when they have spent a lifetime trying to escape it?

It must be nice to just be a body.

・Words inspired by the writings of Caleb Luna ・

Touch Grab Pinch Twist is a performative work which culminates in this series of twelve etchings. In front of my photographic camera, I embody the trauma within my own body – a body that was bullied for being fat – into these contortions of flesh, skin folds, and striations. The frustration is transferred through soft-ground and aquatint on to the copper plate. Once the line work is done the copper plate is is then subsequently tortured by throwing and scraping over the floor. The resulting action leaves behind scratches on the copperplate that look like the marks of lashes over the body.

Touch Grab Pinch Twist
softground and aquatint etching, 2019-2022, edition of 5
sheet: 22″ x 15″, image: 10″ x 8″