Highjack
Acrylic on cotton, 18 x 14", 2021.
The word “sex” is one that immediatly brings tons of things to us, from sensations in the body to clear images in our thoughts -- and sex is, of course, the most common way to make babies. I started to work with this phrase in my own life after having Helena, because I started to search where else I could experience erotic energy in my life. I found deep resonance in Audre Lorde’s text “Uses of the Erotic,” which is in Adrienne Maree Brown’s book “Pleasure Activism.” In this text, Lorde speaks about the hijacking of sexual energy by pornography and capitalism, and expands the notion of the erotic. This work is part of a larger investigation I have about the relation between mantras and slogans.