I think my art is like institutional critique. Honestly, I realized the other day on my work that it's just fun to play with systems and art allowed a space of play and explore ideas that like, I couldn't necessarily verbalize under at the time. Now I do a lot of the Internet. I am very chronically online. Sometimes I'm working on it. And I think also the media literacy is like trash and I'm really frustrated. Maybe I don't know what if it's frustration. It's a lot. And also I worked with kids like, before I became a sex worker. I mean, everybody's a giant kid. But working with kids made learn how to explain things, you know, in a very like basic way, be like X, Y, Z, you know, it's a skill. I've honed that over the years and, a lot of frustration around how we approach tools and also people thinking the Internet is a bad thing, social media is everything's terrible like that.

Have you seen ”Poor Things”? I think they say it in the trailer, but she's like a sex worker for part of it. And they get really like socialist and talk about means of production, you know, and like how their body is their own means of production. I think that's why I use my body too. It feels like the cleanest or more the best environmentally friendly, most pure labor for me, which is hilarious. Yeah, it's the labor that makes me feel the least worse. So it also helps me take care of myself because my body is my performance tool, my art tool, but also my work. Yeah. It's just easy. I think so. I think that in relation to my body, it's always been there. I've always had that relationship with my body and I think art was just a way of proceeding, pulling it out or expanding it a little bit more. I don't know if that art specifically has changed the fashion though. Art specifically, I think now I see my body a lot better. I think maybe seeing how it can, um, change, or how it can become abstract, has helped me become more comfortable with it or view it as more of a tool, which I think has helped me in terms of routine and life and exercise and all those things too. Like viewing it as a tool instead of something that has to fit, like a mold.

Well, I think that fashion influences immediately that's how we judge people, it's like how they're dressed or, also how you dress affects how you stand and your posture and everything and your mood. So for me fashion, I think it's the psychology aspect of it definitely and the body. And also making me feel more comfortable in my, you know, like when you put on certain things, you just feel better. That's huge for me. For sure. I don't know, millennials have, you know, grew up in like early 2000s with super poor body image everywhere. Fashion is a way of understanding my body or figuring it out. That's why I have a drawer for the tailor because, you know, I feel like that's so important for understanding. I realized I have an hourglass figure. I'm finally accepting a little bit more. I think, our relationship to clothing is so different than what people's relationship to their clothing used to be and their body and the usefulness of that.

I feel like I'm just a nerd or I'm just, super sexy. It's my style. I like to play with those perceptions, even though it's a very traditional one. I don't know, I think those things still matter. I think I've always used fashion as armor, and I'm trying to take all those experiences and kind of find a more authentic way to do it now. But historically, I had blue hair, it's like, don't view me in a certain way, or like, you're going to think because like, X, Y, Z, or I dress a certain way, you know, I have certain signifiers that it's this and it's like, no, I want to challenge that. I'm bleaching a blue, you know? I swear, I had like crazy, like long nails in grad school. There were only 3 black girls out of 130 students or something in New York, which is insane. I was trying to play up my identity in a way. Like I'm gonna wear crazy earrings and also walk around with lipstick and fake and fake nails, but then I'm gonna be a teacher's pet, I mean, I'm gonna not a teacher's pet, but I also am doing all this programming.

A huge problem I have with the art world is that it's not inviting, and it feels cut off. I think art and fashion, these are things that are culture and they belong to the people. We can't isolate it, you know? I have a huge issue with that, and so my work, it falls off the canvas in referencing, like, um, well, it's like sugar. Fashion is more important than art. I mean, fashion is art, but I think, fashion is more important than art just because again, it's more democratic and accessible. Expressing myself is important because of humanity. I feel like we have to push back against the machine to hang on to our humanity. Fascism is rising around the globe, and like, we have to, push back against that and hold on to our voices, the things that make us human because it's humanity. Also, AI, there are certain things, like poetry and, things that you can't understand in words or can't be commodified, like things that don't fit the machine. And I think that's super important because that's like why we're alive or why I want to stay alive. Those are the things that we want.