schaulust

Often time, the things that we remember most are the things that have left a huge impact on us. My work is focused on the reflection of those moments in life, where we feel the paradoxical attraction and simultaneous tensions between beauty and grotesque. The choices we make, moment by moment, day by day, lead us to this moment where only partly in control, we stand faced with the vulnerability of having to make choices that draw us towards being seen as beautiful or decidedly not. Equivocating in a moment of suspended awareness about attraction and repulsion is literally part of the fabric of my work. Through my work I offer the opportunity to magnify aspects of this psychological charge and aim to redefine the viewers idea of what they find beautiful, grotesque, as well as how they experience a degree of self consciousness themselves. 
 

MEANING IS NOT A NAKED GIVEN