Mark is an installation of ceramic fingerprints, mapping points of pain across my body for over a month. Each day, I dip my finger in ink, mark each place where I feel pain and photograph my marked body. I press a small ball of porcelain between my thumb and first finger, flattening the clay, capturing my fingerprint. After a month of marking, I project the photographs of my body’s pain maps onto the walls and place a porcelain fingerprint at each point of pain. My pain fills and takes up space while seeming to almost disappear into the white walls. The more pain I experience, the more visible the form of my body becomes across the walls; the less pain, the more abstracted the form of my body.

Mark. 2019. Porcelain. Boulder, Colorado.