MIXED MEDIA ARTIST
I grew up surrounded by a community of artists, tinkerers, makers, and creatives, and from the youngest age I was always looking for opportunities to create, make, and play. I am a self-taught artist with an art making practice that spans media and approaches. From fashion design and shows to poetry slams to theater throughout primary and secondary school, to my current work in printmaking, film photography, and mixed media collage, I love to weave these media as I explore questions in my art.
I create always as a response to the questions that follow me and root me. Questions of self, identity, liberation, possibility, and attention. In particular, my current artistic practice explores questions of lineage, place, body, and healing. I draw from my experiences as a trans non-binary disabled and mad Jew in site-specific ways, and bring my questions forward in my collaborative projects with community. I am curious about ritual, process, and story as a part of transformation. Below are some examples of my work.
POETRY
In addition to coco's work as a visual mixed-media artist, they are a poet and writer, having come through the Ann Arbor slam poetry slam as a teenager. They are currently working on a chapbook of their work, and were most recently among the selected poets for the 2023 Boston Mayor's Poetry Program. Their selected poem (shared here) is currently on display at the Boston City Hall until April 2024.
for the ones I am (re)membering or a love letter to my ancestors pulls from an ongoing project in which corine is exploring their lineages, connection to place in Roxbury and Dorchester, and to tradition through story circles with elders, archival research, and media exploration. The first part of the poem is pulled from a black out poem they created from an email shared with them by their great uncle, Lew Rosenberg, detailing locations of relevance to his own childhood. A mixed media piece, including the blackout poem can be found in the media slideshow above.