#1336: Intersect: A Mixed Media Collage Series

I approach artwork as a collaboration with unruly matter: pigments bloom and resist, papers buckle and tear, materials misbehave. A central concern in my work is agency—not only as a human capacity, but the ways materials, tools, and environments participate in shaping what becomes possible. I work in active relationship with these affordances and resistances, following a posthumanist, distributed sense of agency in which decisions and outcomes are negotiated among bodies, ideas, and materials. As a disabled and chronically-ill scholar and artist, my practice is interleaved with rest, pauses that allow introspection. The processes I use reveal worth and desire in what could be labeled ‘flawed’ or ‘ruined’—metaphors for ways society is disabling. My recent work has focused on ways arts can support the development of critical consciousness, bolster commitment to justice, equity, and inclusion, and enhance visions of radical hope for engineering and science faculty.