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Flood, Elizabeth J.
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Spring 2025
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2025
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In Let Me Be Your Mirror, I create monumental self-portraits that explore the tension and fluidity between my physical body and psychological states. Through bodily distortions, I examine the in-betweens of my female queer experience. I delve into the simultaneous disgust, distress, and fascination with my own corporeality – a body among many female bodies in an overly moralized world. Trapped within claustrophobic mental spaces, fictive versions of myself gaze intently at the viewer, drawing attention to the vulnerability of exposing both my physical and metaphorical insides. Liquidness – exemplified through large, glassy eyes – flows throughout my work, both in gestural mark-making and in literal forms like sweat, water, and pearls. My paintings are cyclical. Eyes, scalps, fleshy red insides, and mint green pearls repeat throughout my paintings, making physical sense of the cycles of my mind and body.
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