Artist Statement

Cutie Beauty & Siri say it best, Mirrors and eyes, fences and disguise - regardless of how others define us, or shield us, I think of beauty as empathy - the enigma that continually tempts me to provoke boundaries, exposing tensions and bonds that develop within.

I enjoy writing screen plays and songs, creating and performing characters, developing immersive landscape composites, and working collaboratively to produce multi-media film productions. I am interested in symbiotic relationships and the narratives that unfold when introducing conditions of action, motion, and emotion before the camera. Using passive camera techniques to explore cycles and potential outcomes, my recent works explore intersections and transformations among character, condition, and vantage, provoking boundaries to expose or hide or identify.

I like fly swatters, but not nearly as much as observing horses standing head to tail to swat the flies from the others eyes. This companionship can be mistaken as courtship. It’s mostly about enabling sleep without discomfort of itchy, stingy eyes. Some horsemen braid a horse’s tail to look pretty, tying it off with tiny bows to add super cuteness. But then the horse cannot use the tail to swat the eyes, and flies feed on their tears. The desire for pretty and cute has compromised the most vulnerable connection with empathy – the eyes. Such paradoxes inspire my multimedia narratives. Whether inside a dugout, a camper trailer, or alongside a Pretty Fence, all my persona-based characters entertain the gap between liminal clarity and misunderstood realities.

 

Her ongoing saga “Cutie Beauty & The Trailer Of Doom!” employs themes of memetics, imitation theory, and human adaptive systems for meaning-making to create a mereological person, Cutie Beauty, whose disposition shifts from part-relation into whole-human formation.

 

FLASHBACK>>

Cutie Beauty & The BAT-SWING Fly

(Episode 8) filmed live at Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA)

WALKING WHILE CUTE (IS NOT A CRIME)

"Walking While Cute is not a Crime (Marching While Cute Is)" is an action-scripted performance in reaction to an injustice "marginalized and denied" captured by police dash cam, "Drop the golf club, it's a weapon!" William Wingate is an Air Force veteran and retired Seattle King County Metro bus driver.

"Walking While Black" Police dash-cam video from July 9, 2014. Seattle – an elderly man walks with a golf club as a cane. Police officer stops him, “drop the club, It’s a weapon!” she demands of him. He is caught off guard, noticeably confused. He asks, “Why, I didn’t do anything wrong. This is my cane, I’ve been using it for 20 years.” Calling for backup, the officer proceeds to arrest this suspect-pedestrian American. In response to this injustice, I wrote the screenplay and performance, “Cutie Beauty, Walking While Cute (is not a crime)”