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Series

situs solitus

2021
Pigment on rag
40 × 40 inches · edition of 3
From the Latin: “in the proper place,” or “on the same side.”
Exhibitions
situs solitus — The Studio Door, San Diego, CA, 2021.
situs solitus — Peggy Phelps and East Galleries, Claremont, CA, 2022 (presented as part of the SoCal MFA Annual Juried Exhibition, Claremont Graduate University, juried by guest juror Dion Johnson).
situs solitus — SVA Flatiron Windows, New York, NY, 2022 (as part of Iridescent Perception, juried exhibition organized by SVA Galleries, April 9–25, 2022).
Artist's Statement

Situs solitus is the medical term for the normal arrangement of organs inside the body — each in its proper place, on the same side. As we grow, parts of the body slip out of that arrangement: not anatomically, but culturally. We learn which ones to cover, which ones to look away from. Falling in love undoes the lesson. The body returns whole — eyes, heart, fingers, shoulders — every part ordinary again, on the same side as tenderness.

In this series I take the parts the culture has agreed to hide and run them through two systems of erasure: pixelation, the visual language of censorship, and Pantone color codes, the naming language of industry. What comes out the other side reads less like a redaction than a flower bed — bold, scattered, a little absurd. Each one is meant to be ordinary in the way a paint chip is ordinary, and tender in the way a body is tender when it is loved. A thing in its proper place.

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situs solitus, installation view at The Studio Door, San Diego, 2021
situs solitus, installation view at The Studio Door, San Diego, 2021
Visitor viewing situs solitus, installation view at Peggy Phelps and East Galleries, Claremont, 2022
situs solitus, exterior installation view at SVA Flatiron Windows, New York, 2022
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