covering
Covering
Archival Inkjet Prints
16 prints, 4x4in
Language functions as a tool for a specific type of communication, one which contributes to the construction of identity. Words act as signifiers, but value is not assigned to words until we, ourselves, assign meaning to the meaningless. This assignation exposes how people perceive themselves and the spheres within which they interact. Consider how these labels, traditionally constructed around negative connotations, leave invisible wounds.
By definition, scars mark the body where a trauma has not completely healed. We are taught to cover both our scars and our identities, toning down stigmas in order to pass.
Skin functions as a defense mechanism, a covering. Arranged systematically in a grid, variant by nature, the scars and words presented in this work suggest that the concealing of stigmatized identities is not a linear problem, nor is there a singular solution. The viewer is shown clearly what we're told to cover up and asked to question the meaning, or lack of meaning, in the act of labeling or categorizing identities.
Archival Inkjet Prints
16 prints, 4x4in
Language functions as a tool for a specific type of communication, one which contributes to the construction of identity. Words act as signifiers, but value is not assigned to words until we, ourselves, assign meaning to the meaningless. This assignation exposes how people perceive themselves and the spheres within which they interact. Consider how these labels, traditionally constructed around negative connotations, leave invisible wounds.
By definition, scars mark the body where a trauma has not completely healed. We are taught to cover both our scars and our identities, toning down stigmas in order to pass.
Skin functions as a defense mechanism, a covering. Arranged systematically in a grid, variant by nature, the scars and words presented in this work suggest that the concealing of stigmatized identities is not a linear problem, nor is there a singular solution. The viewer is shown clearly what we're told to cover up and asked to question the meaning, or lack of meaning, in the act of labeling or categorizing identities.