My practice takes on an autobiographical approach, exploring themes of queerness, body image, and memory across a variety of mediums. This year, my work has been deeply confessional, with art becoming cathartic spiritual process. As both a writer and artist, my work usually begins in poetry; the feelings, concepts and imagery explored in verse inspire the figurative paintings, prints and collages that follow. Incorporating the text itself into these works adds another layer of vulnerability and vulgarity. In BINGE/PURGE (2025), close-up studies of my body are paired with snippets of the poetry, revealing the “food noise” and insecurities that still linger. Exploring painting as a purge of emotion encouraged me to be more experimental with my mark-making: painting loosely or violently, encouraging the paint to drip and spill, using vibrant, intoxicating colours. This continues in Everything is Consumption (2026), in which my monotypes of vintage porn-stars are candy-coloured, with the splotches of ink transferred during the printing process evoking a physical feeling of groping. The poetry here, too, contrasts the idealised bodies lusted after in the work. In the final installation, these works are displayed as part of a shrine, revealing the idolatry of these “perfect” bodies. My performance Nurtured Hunger (2025) replicates a cord-cutting spell as I severed my poem from the body of my soft-sculpture poppet. My ceramic fertility statues surrounded me as I performed, totems of protection warding off the disordered thoughts. Each of these pieces confront my insecurities, using art to release trauma and heal my relationship with my body.