Tragic Romantic (2016) Expanding on my ongoing inquiry into physical and emotional vulnerability, Tragic Romantic explores the pursuit of love as an abject battlefield rife with tension between self-preservation and sloppy abandon. Anxieties surrounding intimacy and rejection are played out as a poetic yet grotesque comedy in which the materiality of the body serves as an outward expression of inadequacy, desire and heartbreak.
Variations of this work have been exhibited as part of Les Misérables ’18 at Kudos Gallery and Impostor Syndrome for Busy Brick. Full video available at vimeo.com/272941201