“When amorous Expenditure is continuously affirmed, without limit, without repetition,” Roland Barthes writes in his A Lover’s Discourse (1977), “there occurs that brilliant and rare thing which is called exuberance and which is equal to beauty.” In the beginning: bodies are supple and tissue is pliable, plants bloom, syrup is poured and runs freely. Time passes: bodies grow brittle, flowers dry, the fluid hardens and crystallizes into solid form. Even still, all continue to change, if less perceptibly. These works are a meditation on the ever-shifting viscosities of life-force, along the spectrum from exuberant fluidity to ossification.
Exuberánce (Tarp and Syrup), 2021
(In collaboration with Chance Cutrano)
Bodies, tarp, plant matter, syrup
Ichor 1-6 (Wet Details), 2021
Ballpoint pen, plant matter, and maple syrup on paper
6 x 5 inches each
Ichor 7-12 (Wet Details), 2021
Ballpoint pen, plant matter, and maple syrup on paper
6 x 5 inches each
Ichor 7-12 (Dry), 2021
Ballpoint pen, plant matter, and maple syrup on paper
6 x 5 inches each
Ichor 1-6 (Dry), 2021
Ballpoint pen, plant matter, and maple syrup on paper
6 x 5 inches each
Ichor Collected, 2021
Ballpoint pen, plant matter, and maple syrup on paper in glass jars