Erospace, 2017-Ongoing

Erospace is a series of multidisciplinary experiments and projects investigating how women access their erotic selves.  

The work grows out of my experience of rediscovering my own erotic self. In 2017, I had an erotic reawakening when I entered a polyamorous triad and realized I was queer. I started playing in a variety of mediums to ask questions and challenge assumptions about women’s pleasure, as well as create space to talk honestly about how we feel and what we want.

To experiment with some early ideas in 2018, I ran a photography and collage workshop for women at Good for Her, a sexuality store in Toronto. I also conducted oral history interviews with a number of women about how they enter and encounter erotic space, by themselves and with others. 

In 2019 I received a fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC for my project By Nature Much Delight. For a month, I dove into the archives and photographed Renaissance midwifery manuals to investigate how women’s sexual pleasure was perceived during that time. That piece is still a work-in-progress.

As the years go by and I’ve become more comfortable being out about our triad, I feel braver taking related artistic risks. So at the end of 2021 and into 2022 I created Melting Point, an award-winning queer experimental erotic short film which has gone on to show at film festivals around the world. Shot using a digital thermal camera, it records temperature instead of light, abstracting the erotic to reveal the joy and connection that can be possible when we give ourselves permission to access it.