Maleman 2.O | 2023

The exploration into manhood is a peculiar thing. A second adolescence highlights the tensions that arise as one walks through puberty. Awkward wooden structures are conjoined to fabric panels that feature felted wool and embroidery, foregrounding the importance of the single strand. Dismantling gendered structures perceived to have evolved naturally but are culturally constructed and inherently artificial. Birthing an allegorical realm that centers the complexities of queer worldbuilding as a euphoric act of creation. Internal growing pains grapple with the callous external experience of holding off the weight of compulsory conformity. The maleman is brought forth within photographic imagery, and he, like any other archetype of a man, is also male. Portals open into contemplative sites, where the possibilities for ways of being are reimagined through generous acts of care and imagination. An indecipherable oddness emerges through the failure of architectural structures that resist function, embracing their proposed queerness as they thwart the body's extension. I house these sculptures incongruently from reality as they become vessels for truths grown from an inescapable feeling of misalignment.

The Maleman | 2022

My practice is an exploration into manhood. Notably, how masculinity can be cross-pollinated through a second adolescence. Highlighting the tensions that arise as one walks through puberty. I am dismantling culturally defined structures that are perceived to have evolved naturally but are inherently artificial. Birthing an allegorical realm that centres the complexities of queer worldbuilding as a euphoric act of creation. Where internal growing pains grapple with the callous external experience. Portals open into contemplative sites, where the possibilities for ways of being are reimagined through generous acts of care. An indecipherable oddness is achieved through architecture that burrows into and out of spaces, where inharmonious elements are brought together in symbiosis.