Before Law

The People v. The Cock of Basel
This collection takes its name from the story of the Cock of Basel, a shape-shifting, gender-bending rooster tried for laying an egg. The works presented here enliven a meditation on gender and sexuality subsumed by legal frameworks that define whose bodies are deemed acceptable, and whose are in need of 'correction'. Its narrative includes ideas of sodomy, that showcase the slippage of subjectivities that have inhabited this label throughout history; delving into notions of 'evil', and the importance of magic and mysticism, in shaping legal histories and the subjects that are constructed through them.

Appendix

In the centre of the image, a giant red circle is overlaid over an image of the desert. The sun shines from the centre of the sky. To the right, a small shadowed creature flies below the sun, in front of the circle. In the foreground are sand dunes, which recede into distant mountains and a dull blue sky.
Fruit that Falls from a Tree

Bite & Hold

A close up of battered wooden floorboards with three boats drawn in blue pen. The floorboards are weathered and worn - one of them is painted in chipped white paint. The boats are crudely drawn in unsteady lines, each one unique. A small motorboat sits above a sailboat, and to the left the hull of a larger ship is cut off by the frame. A piece of tattered cloth lies on the floor in the bottom left of the image, a string crossing over the bowsprit.
The Sea in the River
