Curtain Call, 2023, 60″x40″, Ink, Vinyl Paint, and Acrylic Pens on Polypropylene
Hanky Streamer, 2023, 48″x36″, Ink and Acrylic Pens on Polypropylene
Ball Gag Juggler, 2023, 40″x30″, Ink, Gouache, Vinyl Paint, Acrylic Pens, and Acrylic Medium on Polypropylene
Venus (Your Face Here), 2023, 60″x40″, Ink, Vinyl Paint, and Acrylic Pens on Polypropylene with Oval Hole Cutout
Sour Gummy Challenge, 2023, 60″x40″, Ink and Acrylic Pens on Polypropylene
Spark Plug, 2022, 26″x20″, Ink, Acrylic Pens, and Vinyl Paint on Polypropylene
Trickster, 2022, 24″x14″, Ink, Vinyl Paint, and Acrylic Pens on Polypropylene
Moonbeams, 2022, 14″x11″, Ink and Acrylic on Polypropylene
Sparkler, 2022, 14″x11″, Ink and Acrylic Pens on Polypropylene
Taffy Pull, 2022, 11″x14″, Ink and Vinyl Paint on Polypropylene
Proscenium, 2022, 11″x14″, Ink, Vinyl Paint, and Acrylic on Polypropylene
Pucker Up, 2022, 14″x11″, Ink and Acrylic Pens on Polypropylene
Grand Tetons, 2022, 16″x20″, Ink Vinyl Paint, and Acrylic Pens on Polypropylene
Tape Fetish, 2022, 20″x10″, Ink and Vinyl Paint on Polypropylene
Symbiont, 2022, 20″x10″, Ink, Gouache, and Acrylic Pens on Polypropylene
This body of work began as a nod to Rabelais, a French writer from the 1500s who included bodily topics such as food, sex, defecation, and slapstick violence in his novels. Some literary theorists claim that his grotesque humor came from medieval marketplace carnivals. At these events, an emphasis on the body—in contrast to the mind or soul—restored a sense of kinship among the masses. Similar festivals include Saturnalia, Mardi Gras, Rio’s Carnival, Holi, and Candy Kid Raves.
