“I certainly need a hug right now but a hug never lasts as long as I need it to. Take me back to the womb, shield me from all the chaos and nightmares!”
“There can be great relief in imagining oneself as an object, not as a form of dehumanization, but as a strategy of sidestepping the essentializing pressures that come with being a subject.”
“A work feels resolved when the materials settle into a kind of internal logic. At that point nothing more needs to be added or removed, and the structure feels both inevitable and improbable at the same time.”
“These performative acts allow the body to blend into the object and the object into the body, dissolving boundaries and merging into unfamiliar territories.”