‘Being Well, Well Being’ at Palm Beach Cultural Council, Lake Worth, FL

Thrilled to be invited to show new and earlier works in ‘Being Well, Being Well’ @palmbeachcultureal, curated by Jessica Ransom

Opening reception: February 5, 5:30–7:30 PM (RSVP at palmbeachculture.com/beingwell)
On view through April 4th

I’m excited to be showing never-before-exhibited works from 2018, titled Order + Collapse. I began this work at the onset of what would become a long and complicated medical story. Even then, I was already feeling the strain of an insurance-based model of medicine—the medical-industrial complex—and a fragmented healthcare system. I use the word healthcare, but it often felt like securing a moment of their attention rather than actual care—a form of bureaucratic extraction and surveillance.

This tension is embedded in the work itself. Order + Collapse is a series of collages that dismantle medical imagery and institutional interiors, exposing how healthcare fractures the experience of illness. Created at the onset of my autoimmune diagnosis, the work emerged as my treatment was spread across a network of specialists, tests, and referrals, with no single practitioner holding the body—or the person—as a whole. This fragmentation is compounded by the fact that autoimmune diseases affect nearly 80% of women, yet medical research has largely ignored gender bias in diagnosis and treatment.

Collage operates as both incision and provisional repair: each cut ruptures medical representation, and each reassembled fragment proposes a fragile, self-authored coherence. Rather than documenting a personal medical narrative, the series stages the psychic and physical labor of navigating a system that disperses responsibility and forces patients to assemble meaning from fragments.