Exhibit A as a body of work is about exploring and sharing the material experience of aborting a fetus. From the beginning of realization, through the medical procedures + information, to the emotional grieving and ultimately; preservation of the precious.
In the fall of 2018, this fetus was at week 10, there was no heat beat, and it was RH positive. I am RH Negative, something I didn’t learn about myself until I started getting very sick. With out medical interventions like abortions, and medication- this scenario usually ends up fatal for the pregnant person. Technically at the time I was jobless and didn’t have health insurance - without social health care networks like OHP I would probably not be alive today, simply from getting pregnant.
In this America,
This body of work becomes increasingly relevant with each eroding right. Understanding that this is a life-saving procedure is imperative to the functionality and success of our society.
This Film is an inspired response to the reading you hear, a found expert from a 1950’s textbook. Some of the actions in the film are depictions of the descriptions of the ways women ‘ought’ to be, some are in direct challenge, or conversation with both the narrative and the audience.
This is an on-going, multi-media exploratory body of work that seeks to help me create a visual language for things that words fail.
A Limited selection of photographs from various exhibitions while curating at Littman + White.
This is a photographic study of the fetus before I did anything to preserve it. This study is rooted in deep gratitude, a little morbid forensic curiosity, and is shared with some genuine good faith. People need and deserve to know what they're talking about when we discuss abortions and fetuses. I believe these images can serve to help us see and understand reality as it is, the body for what it is - and dispel some of our fears and misogyny if we let it.