heterology 1-6

heterology 6
^{oil and jackson-pratt surgical drain on canvas

3’x5’, 2023}

heterology 5
^{oil on denim}
^{1.5’x2’, 2023}

heterology 4
^{oil on denim}
^{1.5’x2’, 2023}

heterology 3.3
^{oil on wood

5”x6”, 2023}

heterology 3.2
^{oil on wood
5”x6”, 2023}

heterology 3.1
^{oil on wood
5”x6”, 2023}

heterology 1 (granulation)
^{35"x35", 2020}

Heterology 1-6 demands the viewer to reframe their orientation towards the body. I do this by creating brick-like masses of flesh through techniques such as “furtive bas-relief” (Greenberg, ‘After Abstract Expressionism’), features of piling paint which evoke a tactile, textured, and layered form. In conversation with George Bataille, my work becomes a process of ‘excretion’, or, aspects rejected from the dominant political narrative by antagonism/repulsion. Understood more literally, these are characteristics that fall under the surgical definition of ‘heterology’(which Bataille expands) as “the lack of correspondence between similar structures due to the result of unlike origins of constituent parts.” Many of the material and psychological structures around the Transgender experience, fall under this definition (genitals, dysphoria, place of origin, child development).