Discipline

Discipline constitutes a series of delicate but sinister sculptural works that evoke latent sexual drives through odd combinations of materials, objects, and proximities. Vintage objects from the domestic context-- furniture, clothing, and personal accoutrements-- are conjoined in ways that concretize and make visible their strange functions and corresponding social expectations. These works acknowledge the educational properties of objects and provoke an analysis of the ways we intuit information about societal expectation through observation of our surroundings. As the functions of these objects are frequently ambiguous, they suggest similarly ambiguous but unsettling information about their implicit connotational expectations. The objects exist as instruments, compensations, and residual artifacts of the negotiation between individual interests and societal constraints.

The body is the site and mediator of all psychological and social experience, and sexuality is the site where the body and power negotiation intersect. Many of the instruments used to impose societal and behavioral discipline refer to the body, and most of the objects included among these works refer either directly or indirectly to bodily contact. These objects are an examination of the somatic and psychological negotiation of power-- the acquiring, maintaining, or giving of power or control.

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