To Feel Many Other Ways
Exhibition dates: October 20-24, 2025
Closing reception: Thursday, October 23rd, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Seekers, Charcoal
Where I Rest, Ballpoint pen and ink wash
Tell Me What Hurts So I Can Do It More, Charcoal
Artist Statement
This body of work considers the complexities behind sensory perception with an awareness of every sense we have the privilege to be given, and the overwhelming presence it brings as we incessantly feel it all. There’s a connection with the overlapping of mental and physical feelings and how they tie together, often muddling and influencing each other. The juxtaposition between pain and pleasure and the grey area in between. From a personal queer hypersensitive lens, these works seek to show the appreciation of how complex it is to be a physical body and use drawing as a tool to relive what is seen and felt and striking enough to want to recall. Intimacy plays a large part in these artworks as it feels like the most overwhelming sensory experience, tying as many feelings as it can together into a confusing, exciting, overwhelming mess. These drawings display the appreciation and excitement of queer intimacy, and sometimes there is a fight to overcomplicate it, to seek out punishment and pain, whether it be physical or emotional, for the sake of seeking sensory extremes.
To feel and to document it through our perception is a gift. There’s art behind observation and noticing these patterns, and this work seeks to capture the energy behind lived moments, whether they be overwhelming, painful, pleasurable, or a muddled mixture of it all.