American Appraisal (2016 - 2019, 2019 - present)
Late stage capitalism in America asserts a generalized notion of the word "value" which neglects certain aspects of all humanity, as well as leaves behind many communities and individuals that all too often remain marginalized. This work was made in part as a response to a phrase that was spoken to me by a man, “Your value to us diminishes,” while scrutinizing and auditing what dictates my own relationship(s) to the word 'value' as a bisexual American woman. The work explores questions such as: Why does the overarching American psyche assert that a person’s "value" varies based on capitalistic notions of merit? What is the purpose of applying value to people as if we are objects or functions?
This series began as a direct response to my internal processing of the USA 2016 election, the #MeToo movement's momentum, and being both a woman and part of the LGBTQ+ community in America within this political climate, and has become an examination of the larger consequences of late-stage capitalism through the lens of problematic patriarchal American tendencies. Often the selected text in my work comes directly from words spoken to me by men or words that I experience as a woman in America -- because few things are as powerful and political as language.
Late stage capitalism in America asserts a generalized notion of the word "value" which neglects certain aspects of all humanity, as well as leaves behind many communities and individuals that all too often remain marginalized. This work was made in part as a response to a phrase that was spoken to me by a man, “Your value to us diminishes,” while scrutinizing and auditing what dictates my own relationship(s) to the word 'value' as a bisexual American woman. The work explores questions such as: Why does the overarching American psyche assert that a person’s "value" varies based on capitalistic notions of merit? What is the purpose of applying value to people as if we are objects or functions?
This series began as a direct response to my internal processing of the USA 2016 election, the #MeToo movement's momentum, and being both a woman and part of the LGBTQ+ community in America within this political climate, and has become an examination of the larger consequences of late-stage capitalism through the lens of problematic patriarchal American tendencies. Often the selected text in my work comes directly from words spoken to me by men or words that I experience as a woman in America -- because few things are as powerful and political as language.
2019 - present:
2016 - 2019:
