This body of work in its present realization is my imagining of a series of love letters, spaces of communication that form intricate networks around claims to life and a hope to love. Within this work, I am looking at the interconnectivity between love and forms of gendered and sexualized violence. These moments rupture and disorientation forming new openings within the internal world, creating loops, spaces thick with presence. I am interested in the relationship between the body and the ground, with the boundaries between these two spaces blurred, how can we then reimagine the surface. What gathers on the surface when you are not able to sink into the ground. What are these new directions and are they reason enough to hope?

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The work at its center is performative, I am working through the ways in which the body begins to rupture, to release. We cry, we shake, we vomit. How do these moments of rupture hold their own surface, what happens here? I have used film photography and cyanotype processes to explore these spaces, printing on paper and fabric as a means to create a skin. 

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I am reading alongside Sara Ahmed's Queer Phenomenology as an investigation of the surface, and the work of bell hooks in exploring the intricacies of love.