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 10 weeks. There was no heart 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 can easily become fatal for the pregnant person. It serves as an undeniable example that pregnancies are as complicated as the human body and deserve to be treated with dignity and medicine. Understanding that Abortion is a life-saving procedure is imperative to the functionality and success of our society, because it is imperative to the health of women, and people with uteruses.
We know that the criminalization of the womb is the antithesis of life. The struggle for reproductive sovereignty is deeply rooted in white supremacy. Everything is on Purpose.
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.
This is a “Fun One”, and perpetually on-going/ever-growing.
I love taking pictures of the random-ass shopping carts that you see all over Portland. Everywhere I go I see empty shopping carts that have been abandoned in places they absolutely do not belong - not a box store in sight - where did you come from little dude? What were you holding before you were left here alone and empty, in a pocket of Portland far far away from wherever you and your wheels traversed… I really do find this phenomena fascinating. After seeing them for so many years, I decided to start documenting them every time I come across them.