Artist Statement / About Current Projects:

Since 2002 I have been researching the science and discourse informing explorations of outer space. I see my subject matter through a feminist lens. The increasing militarization of space, the neo-colonial quest for extra-planetary resources, and the metaphors that simultaneously code the feminine and outer space as sublime make outer space a location in culture where gender, fiction, and politics are intertwined and codetermined. It interests me as a unique location to represent "crisis," build critical models and stage elements of our subconscious fantasies through phenomenological events and participatory installations.

Space is a potentially useful place from which to monitor looming environmental disasters and attempt to address global inequities in wealth, resources, and information. It is also a discursive staging ground where racial anxieties and existential crisis have long been pre-figured. Our dependence on optical technologies to reach beyond our planet brings another important issue to light - space is already organized as a gendered object, one that is a reflection of our own struggles and questions with what it is to look at and to be seen. This is a realm where we are still dependent on Cartesian models, where feminist and post-structuralist theories have aimed but as yet failed to reach.

Since 2008 I have been using scented objects, vessels for scent, and scented drawings to compliment the visual components of my artworks with invisible, yet haptic traces that evoke memories and emotion related to specific historical and political contexts. These objects and drawings attempt to model both the perceptual and cognitive limitations of artworks and scientific inquiry,...

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