A Few Private Virtues, 2023

A Few Private Virtues includes a series of observational drawings and paintings referencing captured moments from online pornography. The work focuses on communicating personal fetishes and the conditions under which they are pursued. Erotic desires extend into the picture plane in the form of delicate, obsessive, and occasionally gestural mark-making. Meanwhile, depictions of the figures, overall respectful of the source material, places the subjects in stark opposition to the objects of desire. Choices in color and composition are made to reflect the alterations to the source images as a result of online circulation, foregrounding the digital confines to the modern-day pursuit of sexual deviance. Across the floor lies a pile of footwear, distressed and decorated, a relic of aforementioned constraints and aspirations manifesting in the physically real world.

The body of work was made and curated over the course of my senior year as my thesis for the art studio major at Wesleyan University.

This section contains depictions of nudity.