I do my best to live outside of binaries. I try to allow space for the multiplicity and complexity of the world that I want to live in, but this is not always easy. Binary thinking has been engrained into us. To think outside of this compulsive framework requires an active decolonization of our minds. I oscillate between passing & failing, being beautiful & horrific, being magical & monstrous. I have tailored these binaries specifically to my identities and experiences, reinterpreting the dualistic messages that surround me about gender, beauty and sanity. Because I’ve taking on the role of the prisoner and the guard, my personalized binaries only prove more painful and harder to escape.

In the work of Pass/Fail I confront these binaries and hold a space for multiple realities to exist simultaneously. I have presented passing as failing & failing as passing, the beautiful as grotesque & the grotesque as beautiful and the magical as monstrous & the monstrous as magical. Pass/Fail attempts to unify my schizophrenic experience. And Pass/Fail also seeks to rupture an appearance of wholeness, encouraging the disparate and contradictory.