You’re a new addition to the crayon box: what color are you?
Hot pink with glitter. Hands down.

What is your earliest memory of art?
My first memory of art being important to me was in elementary school. My best friend and I were drawing fan art of Spyro the Dragon and making our own characters. In middle school I was really into making suggestive comics about my crush and I being thieves on the lam. I wish I still had them, I remember them being really raunchy and worrying a teacher would see them.

How did you become a practicing artist?
I graduated from MECA in 2016, and just kept making work after. It’s been a grind, but I’ve been able to cut down my day job to 3 days a week in order to have time to make art while still paying my bills. My goal is to be able to support myself fully off my art eventually. I’ve had pieces in group shows nationally and internationally this year, and my first solo show last year, so it’s finally starting to pay off and it feels really good.

Who do you want your audience to be?
Other weird queers. I feel like I’m making work now that younger me would have been obsessed with.

Talk to us about 3D printing.. the “the membrane between digital and physical” as you put it.
Duality plays a big role for me in my practice. My workflow is both digital and physical, and “crosses the membrane” between the two through the process of making each piece. Sometimes I’ll start by sketching or taking a scan, sculpting it on the computer, printing it out, then finishing it by hand.

I also love to play with the duality of masculinity and femininity to blur them. The internet and digital mediums have always been a stage where people can create and be their ideal selves. I find that using 3D scanning, sculpting and printing to be perfect mediums to explore notions of the utopic trans body. I’m able to scan my body, squish it around like clay, then squirt it back out into reality. It’s the stuff of science fiction, I’m not over it!

Can you name three other artists you look to?
Gracelee Lawrence, Zoe Schlacter, Mika Rottenberg

What is your favorite tool(s) to create with?
Nomad Sculpt on the ipad; it’s a super user-friendly (and inexpensive) 3D sculpting program. Also my 3D printer, a Monoprice Maker Select Plus. It is a FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling) printer, so it works by extruding plastic onto a platform, and building up layers to make the object. I use a biodegradable plastic called PLA (Polylactic Acid).

What is your favorite medium to play with in the studio?
I love using silicone, but really have not mastered it yet. It’s really cool that it can be cast as an object, or just a coating. It’s so fleshy and skin-like.

What does a typical studio day look like for you?
My studio is in my apartment, so I usually start right after I get out of bed and walk my dog. First coffee and dicking around on my computer, then working on a painting, sculpture, or digital piece. On a normal studio day, I’ll spend 3-6 hours in there working. I juggle multiple projects in different mediums at a time, so I’ll typically choose one or two to work on in a day. When I’m 3D printing my sculptures, usually they have to be done in pieces so I can get them as big as I’d like, sometimes it can take 12+ hours per part. Usually it’s pretty self sufficient, so it just kind of does its thing while I work on other projects. The 3D Printed sculptures need so much patching and sanding, sometimes that will be all I’ll do before getting burnt out for the day.

If you could give an identity to a body of your work in five words or less, what would you say?
Body horror, but sexy.