Preview
Creation Date
2023
Dimensions
11in x15in
Materials
Monoprint on paper
Medium
Printmaking
Project Advisor
Benjamin D. Rinehart, Meghan Sullivan
Year of Graduation
2024
Rights
Copyright for this work is held by the artist.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
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Artist Statement
This work uses asexual identity as a lens to examine and to queer attraction and intimate relationships. This process has been engaging, funny, and occasionally painful for me. I’ve reflected extensively on my relationship to sex over the past several years, and how sexual attraction impacts (or doesn’t impact) the way I see and interact with a world I perceive as overly invested in such attraction. The need for this reflection stems from desperation and a sense of intense revulsion towards the expectations society places on women, but it also comes from my desire to explore the infinite number of ways to have (romantic) relationships. The freedom I’ve found through this questioning has made me realize I don’t need to conform to heteronormative relationship structures if they don’t serve me. I can fit together with others however I want to, and that feeling is heady and powerful.