July 2013

Uncommon Bodies

Our senses are only capable of gathering bits and pieces of our surrounding environment. They then reformulate the information and assign context to form meaning. Instead of mechanical calculation, this process is designated by a playful gathering of fragmented information only to reorient for personal purposes.

Williams is interested in the process of reconstitution in which mundane experiences and scenes form potential oddity. The Anomaly Portrait series examines themes of body topography, play, home, and pose. The work tends to amalgamate the senses of the human form, taking something familiar and reconfiguring it into alien territory. Through a changed context, these disparate parts become fetish or exotic object allowing you to look at what is uncomfortable to see, to tie a cute bow around something grotesque and to have accessibility to anomaly. These works collect gaps in understanding and reorient in order to create myth. They extend a hand that provides context in which our bodies experience and understand the world around us.

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