"$12,000 Gown (2002)," 2014, Refashioned, Used Hospital Gown from Northwestern Hospital Chicago, Thread, Elastic.
"$7,000 Gown (2002)," 2014, Re-fashioned, Used Hospital Gown from Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Thread, Elastic.
Using some of the more vacuous, self-aggrandizing social media conventions (mundane Instagram selfies, rambling YouTube "haul" videos, ridiculous Pinterest-fodder DIY fashion project fails) to satirize some of the more tedious, ludicrous elements of my life with chronic illness. I feel that the concept of Chronic Illness Swag is no less ridiculous than any of the more common social media bragging topics.
SELFIE WITH MIGRAINE, Ritz Carlton, Naples, FL.
iPhone,
February 5, 2015
"My Very Own Brain," 2012, compiled brain scan stills.
This particular body of work contains re-purposed physical evidence from My Life While Sick, parody unboxing, haul, and advice videos, recontextualized medical documents, and images documenting moments during the more dramatic/ridiculous periods of the chronic illnesses ever-present in my existence.
"Yellow Friend (Mount Sinai)," 2004, 8"x10", paint marker, paper, varnish, on archival inkjet print.
"Blue Friend (Mount Sinai)," 2004, 8"x10", paint marker, paper, varnish, on archival inkjet print.