multimedia collage on stitched together brown paper bags, 31.5×39.5 in, 2021
Text in Bath is quoted from Susan Stryker. Citation: Susan Stryker. My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage. GLQ 1, June 1994.
Image Description: A multimedia collage on brown paper bags cut and sewn together with purple and red yarn. The bags form a rectangular shape. In the center of the piece is a white frame taking the shape of the sides of a bath. Inside there are many squiggly translucent white shapes along with red stitching. At the top of the bath is a blue oval with squiggly brown lines inside. Over the blue oval is a long grey showerhead. The showerhead connects to an embroidered frame that is painted blue on the inside and shows a ceiling with pipes. Next to this scene is a quote from Susan Stryker’s “Performing transgender rage” in white ink on a black square background. It states, “A technological construction–flesh torn apart and sewn together again in a shape other than that in which it was born–too perceived as less than fully human due to the means of embodiment.”. Over the showerhead and this quote is a ring of squiggly shapes excreting different colored liquids. Next to the blue framed scene is a pink hand reaching up. Under the blue framed scene is a medical diagram showing a clitoris (A) and a penis (B) side-by-side. Under the drawings, it states, “the clitoris (left) and the penis (right) emerge from the same cells in a zygote”. On the right side of the drawing is an ink drawing of someone lifting up their shorts to show “sensitive” embroidered on their upper thigh. This piece uses a mix of embroidery with thread and yarn, acrylic paint, oil pastels, ink, parchment paper, brown paper bags and tape.