Organs of Truth, Organs of Meaning (installation view), 2003 Copper, enamel, Plexiglas shelves each 5 8 x 2 1/2 6 1/2 x 3/4 1 3/4" Photo: Emily Watson

"The Graphic Body" is a series that explores how our systems of information translate to physical sensation. I see an imbalance between our internal and external understandings of the world, our visceral reactions versus those influenced by the glut of information surrounding us. Within that realm of information, representations of the body are simultaneously graphic and vague, our sensory experience of the body blended with cultural understandings of what a body should be. I hope to create objects that require the external and internal to be understood simultaneously, and rely on the body to be situated and experienced. The "attachables" are constructed with magnetic attachments to expand how they may be worn, allowing the entire body to be engaged as a site of adornment.