They Moved Me
Fall 2020
Drawing from Patricia Leavy’s work, Method Meets Art, I created this multi-disciplinary piece as part of my continued work regarding sadism and masochism as spiritual practices. Here, diverging ecstatic expression - in the form of freewrites - and traditional academic inquiry clash together, resulting in a visceral, vulnerable work. Through the process of typing my handwritten freewrites and transforming them into blackout poetry, I reveal the essential, painful, and erotic subconcious that informs all of my work, but especially that pertaining to family systems, trauma,
and pleasure.
and pleasure.
