A whore is a whore is a whore
2024–ongoing
This is a body of work which begins through an ongoing archive of makeup remover wipe “prints” that I make from my face. In these performances, I hang these images from two lines, which are pinned to my temples with needles. My face is smeared with white paint.
This is documentation from the third iteration of this performance, developed at the workshop Constellations of Critical Bodies. The hanging makeup remover wipe prints extended from this grassy lawn through the open door and into the main building where the performances were held. I lingered in this frozen tableau, buried up to my neck in the dirt. As I emerge from the ground in my high femme stilettos and lingerie, I take off my underwear and reveal my genitals to the audience, which I shaved and decorated with mirror stickers like for a disco ball.
This is documentation from the third iteration of this performance, developed at the workshop Constellations of Critical Bodies. The hanging makeup remover wipe prints extended from this grassy lawn through the open door and into the main building where the performances were held. I lingered in this frozen tableau, buried up to my neck in the dirt. As I emerge from the ground in my high femme stilettos and lingerie, I take off my underwear and reveal my genitals to the audience, which I shaved and decorated with mirror stickers like for a disco ball.
Working girl
in collaboration with MJ Tom
photo by Riven Ratanavanh
2025
installation as part of group exhibition Proxy Chimera Oracle
Through this series of works leading up to my thesis show at CalArts, I entered a process of collaboration with my mother, Claire.
receiver
works including installation, performance, video, text
2025
The show closed with a 7-hour durational performance. For this length of time, I attached a rice paper screen to my temples. The screen hangs from lines that anchor in my skin. My gaze is bound to this projection of an image of my mother, my double. Here, I became the receiver for care that was “missed.” Returning to some unknown need or wish that was not met in childhood (mine or hers). Readdressing the wound.
Mark me mark me mark me
works including video, installation, prints
2024
“Lubricating this arcane luxury”
– Cassandra Troyan, Freedom and Prostitution
A stack of twenty dollar bills given to me by my mother, printed in my blood, takes flight in this installation. This work is made in collaboration with Kassandra Sparks, MJ Tom, and Jessica Perez.
When I look at you, I see me
body of work including collaborative durational lock-ins
video piece (6:56)
2024
video piece (6:56)
2024
Untitled Polaroid series
2021–ongoing
Marriage
2019–ongoing
in collaboration with Kassandra Sparks
surgery performed by MJ Tom
surgery performed by MJ Tom