I also often use my image, or a figure drawn from my image to create a gesture that describes an emotional state. I seek to express personal emotions that are at once current and timeless and echo a collective human experience. I see the 19th century woman to be a woman of emotion. She swoons, faints and romantically blots a tear. She is presupposed to be emotional, allowed to fall to pieces.
Women are emotional.
I do however see humor in emotionality. I often laugh and cry at the same time, seeing the silliness in my grief or rage, which is none the less, real. I try to reflect this sense of absurdity in my work. In some of my more objective self investigations, I have utilized computers and biotechnology to generate graphical output that describe something of my identity and the context of my existence, presenting my personal information in an abstract form. I use my art as a platform on which to integrate life's experiences.