i.s.

works
︎︎︎the whipped dream
series (2021)
︎︎︎the who am i?
series (2021)
︎︎︎biomorphic boobs
& the female gaze
(2022)
︎︎︎LIFE IN COLOUR
FROM THE ARCHIVE (2022)
  ︎︎︎the abject desire
(2022 - present)
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Cro-slay

A term used to encapsulate the camp and biomorphic, through crochet mediums.

biomorphic boobs & the female gaze

Inspired by bell hooks’ fe(male) gaze which provided agency to the brown, queer and female body through the understanding of their positions within society, further allowing for the progression of said bodies in exploring, defying and redefining their own body architect. As such this project aims to investigate the breast form through distortions of its anatomy, through processes that employ camp codes of ‘the unnatural: of artifice of exaggeration, through stylized modes of creation (Sontag 1999:53).

As such Cro-slay coins the fusing of the words crochet and slay to overtly queer the craft process of crochet.

Drawing inspiration from Vicki Hodgetts Eggs to Breast (1972), Ernesto Neto’s large scale sculptural installations and Judith Butler’s analysis of gender parody which investigates how, ‘parody is of the very notion of an original; just as the psychoanalytic notion of gender identification is constituted by a fantasy of a fantasy, the transfiguration of an Other who is always already a ‘figure’ in the double sense, so gender parody reveals that the original identity after which gender fashions itself is an imitation without an origin’ (Butler 1999:364).

beads (13.5 x 61 x 11cm) [yarn, cotton filling]

the cups (average cup size: 7.9 x 7.6 x 9.1cm & 5.6 x 6.3 x 7.6cm) [fabric, latex and yarn]

bleeding (average cup size 7.9 x 7.6 x 9.1cm, 61cm) [latex on canvas]

mommy milkr (15.8 x 198 x 18.2cm) [yarn, cotton filling, sheer tights]

cyst (22.5 x 15.9 x 23.8cm) [yarn, cotton filling]

the cups II (average cup size 7.9 x 7.6 x 9.1cm on canvas 61cm) [fabric, latex, yarn on canvas]

boob tube (15.2 x 56.7 x 17.5cm) [latex]