In the past few years my comics and drawings have focused on the idea of reverting. I was held hostage by a need to return to the source and a desire to crawl back into the womb.
In Exercises in Buoyancy, I used four women to embody different aspects of my journey to return home. The film is non narrative and can be understood out of sequence because each scene leads directly to the central thread: the tension between the difficulty of being a grown woman and the craving to be taken care of.
The locations and sets were meticulously constructed to create a world that is both mundane and fantastical. As I departed from the solitary medium of comics for the collaborative world of film making, I chose to use an all female cast and crew in order to preserve what I felt was a deeply feminine experience.
My current work continues to explore themes of evolving female identity. I am writing and drawing Four Girls, a graphic novel about the clumsy first loves of a college girl. I am the producer and co-editor of Body of Work, a feature-length documentary about Kai Beverly-Whittemore’s transformation from subject to artist.
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