Hunt Residencies X

Artist statement

Humans have a sense of morbid fascination that leaks into culture. Media allows people to be voyeurs of the grotesque and perverse through mediums that negate the need for a viewer’s physical presence. This separation from reality de-humanizes the person into character and the body into object that is broken down, sexualized, abused, sensationalized, and exploited. The advent of the internet has further lead to cultural desensitization by endless amounts of depravity being instantly accessible. Further making people able to participate in depravity anonymously. The taboo is the undertow of things people love and humor, beauty and fun are able to exist within it. I utilize maximalism to capture the overstimulating nature of content and the internal tension in my work. I pull inspiration from a chronologically diverse archive of images based on Catholicism, the circus, Mondo documentaries, cult horror movies, vintage erotica, early internet references such as goatse.cx and Chris Chan. My subject mater often contains distorted figures as archetypes. Similarly my processes for making involves mixed materials and emphasis on the technical aspects of print and illustration.