Embroidery on tallit gadol (prayer shawl), 18x72” 2022.
Embroidery on tallit katan (tzitzit) and chest binder, 35x15”
The work is a tallit katan set upon a chest binder, inspired by Rabbi Ari Lev Fornari’s story in Torah Queeries, in which he describes his morning ritual of putting on his binder, which has tzitzit attached. The Hebrew text embroidered on the tallit Katan reads “Blessed are you, breath of the universe, who commands us to create and recreate ourselves,” invoking the ritual of self-creation that trans people go through every morning when they dress themselves.
Amulet Bowls
Glazed earthenware
Approx 4” diameter each
2021
Based on ancient Jewish incantation bowls & amulets
New Hanky Code
Jean pockets, handkerchiefs, fabric, embroidery, and found objects
2020
Drawing Out a Path for Queerness (Monument)
Cast aluminum, steel, wood, closet door, pigments, wishbone, love letters from an ex.
Emily Budd and Laurence Myers Reese, with Iulia Filipov-Serediuc, Christina Uran, Micah Haji-Sheikh, Tiffany Lin, and Keeva Danielle Lough.
2020
Photo credit Mikayla Whitmore
BONUS HOLE POPPERS
Testosterone Bottles, Printed labels
2019
pallet ballet
video installation, pallet, boxes
3” loop, 4’x6’x4’
2019
https://vimeo.com/380501809
Anything I do is Labor
process
2019
Responding to Bruce Nauman’s conjecture that anything that happens in the studio is art, I set forth to create objects, and explore the repetitive movements of factory labor outside of the factory. During this process I built wooden pallets, walked across pallets, boxed my clothes and uniform from my old work at a factory, boxed and unboxed objects from my previous job, and examined how my body interacted with these objects. For the most part, i did not document this process, but chose to document the ephemera left from the personal performance in the studio. The work is proven through its action, and not its documentation.
“Songs for a Third Space”
Cassette, Audio (23’33”)
2018
What is a Third Space? Where do we put our “Third” Time, and what language and sound create our third “space” of belonging?
If the first place is home, and the second is work, what place do our bodies have?
Field recordings from gay bars, queer spaces, studios, a factory, bathrooms, are all combined in an attempt to grasp the sound of the third space.
This soundtrack is a way of bringing us into a new third space together.
This is a song for us to create a place inside our own bodies, for us. This is a soundtrack to create meaning and communicate to you,dear listener, that we can have a third space together via our shared experiences, via communication, and even via cassette.
Third space is defined as a post-colonial socio-linguistic theory of identity and community realized through language or education. Third place is a community builder term, of where the action of community is formed, beyond the home and work life.
Queer people define home, third spaces & places through discussions and communities, both in person and online. The background noises of where my identity is formed, both actively and passively, queer and non-queer, coalesce to form the soundtrack for another kind of third space, and a home in my body.
The noises are intended to be relaxing and engaging in identity.
These sounds are for anyone seeking a home in themselves, and in sound.
Mixed Media Fiberworks
2014-2016
