Sweat Prints

Just as hair can elicit conflicting feelings of attraction and repulsion, sweat also creates push/pull responses depending on the social situation. Sweat can be highly sexualized, or on the other hand, be off-putting. The Sweat Print series came about when thinking about the female body in an athletic physical setting. Created with cosmetics (or watercolor) and workout sweat on thin, fragile papers, they serve as a nod to Mary Kelly’s Post Partum Document. Though there is a bit of a poke at abstract expressionist works, the prints still relish in the beauty of simple mark making, implementing my own body as an artistic instrument and my sweat as the medium.