ARTIST STATEMENT
cluessa is an interdisciplinary artist, but often works in oil pastel. Secretions, pustules, hair, and flesh are intimate - undeniable, eliciting and responding to the virtual. Stress becomes abscess. Intrusive thoughts become fatigue. Topic-ally, the work engages with trauma, romantic relationships, domesticity, nature, and identity.
cluessa is an interdisciplinary artist, but often works in oil pastel. Secretions, pustules, hair, and flesh are intimate - undeniable, eliciting and responding to the virtual. Stress becomes abscess. Intrusive thoughts become fatigue. Topic-ally, the work engages with trauma, romantic relationships, domesticity, nature, and identity.