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My first line of defense is a crotch chop
My First Line of Defense
Vinyl, quilted cotton, embroidery floss, yarn, leather, brass, acrylic paint
35 x 12 x 10 inches
2020
My first line of defense is a crotch chop
My First Line of Defense (reverse)
Vinyl, quilted cotton, embroidery floss, yarn, leather, brass, acrylic paint
35 x 12 x 10 inches
2020
Face Your Fear is a ceremonial wrestling cape, designed with Texas Tech ADM professor Rachel Anderson. The reverse bares an abstracted face with full lips and winged eyelashes in a nod to Mexican and Japanese wrestling mask design.
Face Your Fear
Vinyl, quilted cotton, embroidery floss, yarn, leather, brass, acrylic paint
35 x 23 x 12 inches
2020
Face Your Fear (reverse)
Face Your Fear (reverse)
Vinyl, quilted cotton, embroidery floss, yarn, leather, brass, acrylic paint
35 x 23 x 12 inches
2020
Face Your Fear (detail)
Face Your Fear (detail)
Vinyl, quilted cotton, embroidery floss, yarn, leather, brass, acrylic paint
35 x 23 x 12 inches
2020
Face Your Fear (detail)
Face Your Fear (detail)
Vinyl, quilted cotton, embroidery floss, yarn, leather, brass, acrylic paint
35 x 23 x 12 inches
2020

This project includes two wearable pieces that explore professional wrestling, its exploitation of queer bodies, and the performed phallocentrism of competitive acts.