MOTHER PARADISE

My work is shaped by the human body and the forms it can be made to take. I’m interested in transformation: the ways attention, restraint, pain, beauty, and power can dissolve performance and bring a less guarded self into view.

I approach each encounter as a form of composition, shaped by the person before me, the dynamic that develops between us, and the particular transformation the experience can hold.

My practice is inspired and informed by my other interests. Much of my life is spent reading, studying art, and following ideas across different forms. I move between museums, films, literature, fashion, philosophy, and mythology. I return often to Surrealism for its hidden relationships, symbolic meaning, and its treatment of reality as something that can be altered, reconstructed, or made otherwise.

Violence, desire, fear, appetite, possession, feminine power, and transformation recur throughout my work, often overlapping and altering one another’s meaning.

I want to create encounters that change the person who enters them. Growth may come through confrontation, surrender, repetition, discomfort, or the discovery of unfamiliar capacities, desires, and ways of responding. No two encounters should take the same form. I am interested in the individuality of the person’s psychology, and the ways they respond to attention, direction, and care.

Objectification, restraint, service, discipline, pain, and ritual are not offered as separate experiences. They are materials I may use in service of something larger. Their use depends on context, timing, consent, and the dynamic itself.

I do not build encounters from a list of requested acts, I observe, decide, and create according to the person in front of me, the boundaries established between us, and what the experience asks to become.

The private practice is intentionally small. Each encounter belongs to an evolving body of work concerned with power, beauty, transformation, and the forms desire and the human experience can be made to take.