These images are from my half of the exhibition “The Dirt Resists You,” a dual show with Raquel Belden in the Michael and Naomi Neidorff Gallery in San Antonio, Texas in 2019. Both Belden and I explored our own discomfort with our identities within the context of femininity. Our exploration of our gendered experience employed fragmentation literally, aesthetically, and conceptually as we sought to create images that feel whole and complete as they attempt to forge something that “makes sense” out of disparate components. Through painted and sculpted still lives, I explored these ideas through the lens of domesticity and the home.  The still lives are aesthetically cohesive with a feminine color palette, giving the feeling of wholeness and comfort. However, upon further observation, one begins to see that the still lives are made up of disconnected and disparate parts. Through unexpected juxtaposition, these objects are recontextualized to forge new connotations and implications. These disjointed but cohesive domestic still lives lend themselves to capture the complexities and contradictions that make up adult womanhood, and my own deep personal discomfort with that gendering I was feeling at that time.