At the height of the Covid Pandemic and increased concern over my own health, I took to continuing the work from the “Guts” series. With increasing specificity to concerns over the health of myself and loved ones, I combined poetic phrases of illness with whimsical and gross fantasies of the internal body.
RAW AND IRRITATED, 2021
oil pastel on paper

GOOD DAYS/BAD DAYS, 2021 oil pastel on paper

I'm fine, 2021 oil pastel on paper 11" x 7"

It Smells Uncomfortable, 2021 oil pastel on paper 8" x 11"

untitled (body cave), 2021 oil pastel on paper 8" x 8"

I don't want you to worry, 2021 oil pastel on paper 9" x 12"

untitled (rosebud), 2021 oil pastel on paper 13 1/4" x 10"

I'm embarrassed to say, 2021 oil pastel on paper 11 3/4" x 8 1/4"

It doesn't hurt that bad, 2021 oil pastel on paper 9" x 12"

untitled (bodyknot), 2021 oil pastel on paper

It feels Weird, 2021 oil pastel on paper 8" x 11.5"

untitled, 2021 oil pastel on paper