Plastic is a material full of queer linguistic contradictions unlike any other. It is abject in one way, as it can be a byproduct of consumption, a bit like shit. It is also glistening, alluring, and infinite, not like shit.

My current practice is performance-centric, with a multidisciplinary approach involving sculpture, sound, textile, prose, and more. My work explores the queer relationship between plastic waste and organic ecologies, where the body becomes the embodied site of a merged natureculture binary. I also investigate the queer productivity of plastic pollution, leaning away from normative eco-apocalyptic narratives and forging visions of a strange and intriguing future.

I am interested in uses of humour, and the erotic (by Audrey Lorde’s definition of the word) in my practice, using sensory and subconscious experiences in a subversively queer/feminist way. Joseph Beuys’s idea of landfill as ‘democratic social sculpture’, too, has been very influential in my practice, and I am primarily working with plastic waste found in the bins of the University of Reading Art Department. Through weaving, plaiting, and otherwise manipulating this waste, the work will become something more alive than the waste it was destined to become, in response to the new bacterial life that is being birthed on ocean microplastics.