
Birth of the World 10
Birth of the World is a new series of collages about pleasure and my human body. Colonization forces the human body into a small box, but the human body is an expansive and mysterious container. I am on a journey of rewilding my relationship to my body and moving into integrity with the natural world around me. As part of that practice, I use my body and my art to unlearn negative messages that don’t serve me, so that I may embrace the wild and natural aspect of my being. I am fascinated by my body and all it can do.
“Being a primate growing up under the influences of patriarchy and colonization; we have become domesticated primates. Our sexuality is deeply under the influence of domestication. The ways in which we perceive and experience sexuality and pleasure as inherently suspect and dangerous are mostly the result of...