Drawings
Intimacy Under the Microscope
2022This drawing series explores the interactions that take place on a microscopic level when we experience physical intimacy. When we hold hands, kiss, brush eyelashes, have sex, and get each other sick, what microbes and bacteria are interacting? These drawings illustrate the physical structures of these interactions, dramatizing and personifying the microscopic to complicate our visualizations of intimacy and romance.
A Blood Pact to Fight the Flu, micron pen on paper, 14 x 17 inches. Blood of two people: red blood cells, platelets, white blood cells, and microglial white blood cells.Butterfly Kisses, micron pen on paper, 14 x 17 inches. Microscopic intimacy of the mites (demodex folliclorum) that live on our eyelashes.Sex After Chocolate, charcoal on stonehenge paper, 43 x 30 inches. Microscopic cheek cells, skin cells, sperm, salival bacteria, cervical mucus, vaginal discharge, chocolate, and sugar crystals.Two People Holding Hands, micron pen on paper, 14 x 17 inches. Palmar skin cells.Two Lovers Kissing After Eating Strawberries, micron pen on paper, 14 x 17 inches. Oral bacteria, plaque, saliva, cheek cells, strawberry cells.
Compulsive Catholic, 14 x 17 inches, micron pen on paper