Charting Identity: Time-Location-Body was a senior thesis exhibit at Connecticut College. The following works were part of a year-long exploration of identity through the lens of time, location, and body.
"Our bodies, daily experiences, and memories create the illusion of a concrete sense of self that we refer back to each new day. Gender, race, sexuality, class, and location intertwine to create codes that categorize individuals into a network of constructed identities that form compartmentalized, imagined communities. My scope of “place” is as intimate as my social circle and as abstract as my country. In addition to focusing on location as a force that forms identities, I also revisit lessons of gender I learned as a child, lessons institutionalized by schools and playrooms. The images that recur throughout childhood and adolescence are powerful, as are sensory experiences of the every day. Games and maps chart a relationship between body, memory, and place.
I try to understand myself as a tangled, knotted, moving rope constantly branching outwards within a culture that can codify, comfort, or constrain. I use memories, childhood objects, my body, and maps to explore these ideas. "
"Our bodies, daily experiences, and memories create the illusion of a concrete sense of self that we refer back to each new day. Gender, race, sexuality, class, and location intertwine to create codes that categorize individuals into a network of constructed identities that form compartmentalized, imagined communities. My scope of “place” is as intimate as my social circle and as abstract as my country. In addition to focusing on location as a force that forms identities, I also revisit lessons of gender I learned as a child, lessons institutionalized by schools and playrooms. The images that recur throughout childhood and adolescence are powerful, as are sensory experiences of the every day. Games and maps chart a relationship between body, memory, and place.
I try to understand myself as a tangled, knotted, moving rope constantly branching outwards within a culture that can codify, comfort, or constrain. I use memories, childhood objects, my body, and maps to explore these ideas. "