there is a being that lives inside me before she had a name I called her: the stomach being she has been with me since I was born a weight beneath my ribs a knot a voice I feel rather than hear she is the shape my trauma has taken the body of everything unspoken swallowed or hidden. my work is an attempt to bring her out of the dark to give her form to let her be seen her name is Viscera this is a lifelong process a lifelong collaboration a slow unearthing each piece I create is part of a larger map: viscera_01_mind charted her voice the restless currents of thought and memory viscera_02_body gave her flesh explored how she lives within and upon me under skin and muscle now I begin to ask: where is her soul? what breathes inside her? what breathes inside me? I work with materials that speak of skin, guts, and breath latex, leather, bio-plastics materials that feel alive, or half-alive I build forms that blur the line between sculpture and body between creature and self sometimes I invite others inside: through performance through space through touch. I want them to feel what I feel. The weight The ache The presence.