Meat Rack

The free standing sculptures implicate the viewer by creating a voyeuristic environment primed for spectatorship. This current work is informed by my experience of the gyms in the Bay Area, specifically those that have a large gay male population. As the viewers begin to decipher the ambiguous, body-like ceramic forms sprayed in glitter and glazed, their view is skewed by the colored acrylic glass, not able to fully see the forms in their entirety. The sculptural forms are familiar, yet through their fluidity and mutability  of shape, remain ultimately other. Through the combination of curves, hooks and chosen materials, the sculptures present an abstracted representation of the sexualized, gay male body and the filters that are applied by the self and others.