"Crush" by Lorca Jolene

Paper Collage

15'' by 16''

My paper collage art extends themes of queerness, body modification, and dark glamor that I explore in my stage performances as a nonbinary sideshow artist. I slice through and rip up fashion magazines, medical textbooks, and manga to make bodies formed from juxtaposing pieces that are uncanny, surreal, androgynous, and liminal. They center the modified body as a mutable site of ambivalence and creation, where a comprehensive identity emerges as more than the sum of its parts. It is my aim to inspire curiosity about how coherent, beautiful selves can emerge through bodies that carry traces of violent origins and are formed out of chaos and contradiction.

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