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silhouettes:

1. lack: the silhouette formed from the paper surrounding the empty body. the narrative is written around the body, forming its boundaries. The narrative is about my friend's scott's voice, a screeching whine, something i've described as the sound that the lemmings make as they go over the cliff. scott was a lacan-ophile, something i didn't take too kindly to. one interterm he taught an informal course on lacan with my friend aaron. i came to class one day and showed him MY petit objet a. we did radio shows together, my monotone & his screech.

2. shoes: i started buying shoes in mass quantities this january. impractical, ill-fitting, pretty shoes. my friends said i had finally blossomed into womanhood. this silhouette is an outline of most of my shoes. i traced them while wearing them and dancing around to prince.

3. it's not your fault: the text surrounding the body of this silhouette is a list of stupid things i have done while drunk (falling down the stairs, falling down the same stairs three times in a half-hour period, etc.), while the phrase "it's not your fault" is repeated around the hands. cocktail umbrellas on the ass of the silhouette indicate the "it's not my fault" gland, an organ responsible for all the stupid shit you do under the influence. no need to apologize - it's not your fault.

4. solid gold: this silhouette is in lord of the dance posture and wears a raspberry leotard and gold heels. The narrative surrounding the figure (again forming its boundaries, its skin) is about dancing and growing into and out of our bodies. being seven years old and dancing on coffee tables to like a virgin with reckless abandon trying to shake off a seven year old's body for madonna's, age twelve and trying to push breasts back in your body at a school dance, etc.

5. submissive posturing: silhouette drawn while on my knees, bent forward with head, hair, and arms on the floor. only body parts that touched the paper are drawn.