I make photographic collages that examine trauma, transformation, and queer embodiment. My practice consists of two distinct, interconnected, ongoing bodies of collage: one contains photographs where I destabilize and distort my own anatomy, and the other uses imagery that echoes this deconstruction in pictures I make of the built environment. An important part of my process is maintaining a significant distance between the time I make my pictures and when I use them in a composition, so as to mirror the slow, reflective journey that takes place in the wake of emotional trauma.
I continuously sort my images, creating groupings that evoke curiosity, anxiousness, beauty, and dissonance. My work is frenetic, yet composed with surgical precision. I construct by tracing directional energy across images, allowing each composition to develop its own sense of movement. When I foster multiple works simultaneously, they evolve in conversation with one another, and formal decisions made in one piece influence the others. My practice reflects a ruptured experience of life in which perception is unreliable, identity is fluid, and meaning emerges through accumulation and perseverance rather than resolution or closure.
J (b. 2000, New York)
sinwithoutgod@gmail.com