Feel Me, Box Gallery, Buffalo, NY 2018, was my MFA Thesis project at the University at Buffalo, 2018. The project responds to my conflicted relationship to the commodification of feeling by the wellness industry, in which I’m implicated as a yoga instructor, and which I’m also critical of as a capitalism skeptic.

Feel Me emerged from an investigation into early, pre-wellness industry memories of hyper-sensing, and feeling comfort, safety and satisfaction. Memories of the the desire to have weight on my body as a child — the pleasurable feelings of having my blood pressure taken, the led X-ray vest at the dentist office, buried in sand, under couch cushions, or the bodies of my siblings, inspired this work. Feel me addresses alienation from intuitive somatic knowledge and the consequential commodification of feeling (by the mindfulness industry), and looks at experimental ways of decolonizing and recovering open source feeling.

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