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“Book Body No.5: Tear Here” is the most recent work in a series of apparel sculptures that perform the futility of communication, particularly where it attempts to capture queer and othered being. This sculpture's form is inspired by flyers with tabs that are ripped off by interested passersby. The piece is changed by its viewers, as the existence of a person is changed by others’ perceptions of them. We learn about one another in fragments, altering each other’s image through our own contexts. I came to this project from a place of body dysphoria with questions around assertion of oneself amongst inevitable misinterpretation. Viewers are invited to rip off a piece and keep it in a context of their choosing.
Approximately half of the tabs are typed in a font I invented that uses unreadable glyphs, but all tabs repeat and are present in a legible font at some point on the sculpture.
worn at abcpvd's show "Geese Goose" in April 2024
The essay in this sculpture is not available to read in full, except in the unlikely event that someone gathered enough of the severed tabs and arranged them in their original order.
2024
laserprint on found paper, muslin, cotton thread, essay
"Book Body no.5: Tear Here" was performed in at abcpvd's show "Geese Goose" in April and May of 2024