PROJECTS

SYLLABUS

Artist Books
An insistance on something you can hold in your hands; I was here, and I loved and fought really hard to do so.
I took an artist's book class in college that changed my life, and changed the way I keep records of my life. Always detached, a voyeur of my own experience—and a reference point for what comes after.

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POLAROIDS
One-of-a-Kinds, Available SoonThe newly unearthed archive of my personal images, made when I didn't really feel like I was making art at all.

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NIGREDO
The Mardi Gras CycleFebruary 2026 marks my second Mardi Gras, and my first as a resident of New Orleans; a guest in the House of the Rising Sun. It also marks the first year of my exploration of the alchemical Magnum Opus.

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LES SÉANCES
Polaroid emulsion transfers on Arches cold-pressed watercolor paper.

What is a séance if not the invitation to experience something beyond the bounds of humanity?

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ECTOPLASM
Is my husband possessed?Images made as an homage to changechangechange and Mike Kelley.

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DELTA OF VENUS

“I was sure the old man knew nothing about the beatitudes, ecstacies, dazzling reverberations of sexual encounters. Cut out the poetry was his message. Clinical sex, deprived of all the warmth of love—the orchestration of all the senses, touch, hearing, sight, palate; all the euphoric accompaniments, background music, moods, atmosphere, variations—forced him to resort to literary aphrodesiacs.
‘We could have bottled better secrets to tell him, but such secrets he would be deaf to. But one day when he reached saturation, I would tell him how he almost made us lose interest in passion by his obsession with the gestures empty of their emotions, and how we reviled him, because he almost caused us to take vows of chasitity because what he wanted us to exclude was our own aphrodesiac—poetry.”

from the Preface to “Delta of Venus” by Anaïs Nin.

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SKETCHBOOK

You have to fight against the constant digitization of your life, one hard-fought-and-won page of a sketchbook at a time.

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INHERITANCE
Illustrations from Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
February 2019 - January 2021

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NO MOURNING /
UNCATEGORIZED IMAGESThis is where small or otherwise abandoned projects live.

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@aphrodesiaaa
New Orleans, LA


APHRODESIAAA FOR ALL AILMENTSSS

[View..] READING LIST1. The Wax Child - Olga Ravn
2. Powers of Horror - Julia Kristeva
3. The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell
4. Sex-Pol Essays, 1929-1934 - William Reich
5. Francesca Woodman: The Artist Books
6. Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink, and Deviant Desire - Anastasiia Fedorova
7. Porn: An Oral History - Polly Barton
8. The Poetics of Space - Gaston Bachelard
9. Thee Psychick Bible - Genesis P. Orridge
10. Horror in Architecture - Joshua Comaroff & Ong Ker-Sing
11. Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex - Sophia Giovannitti

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COME ROT AT THE DEVIL’S GLENAll words and images © C.C. @aphrodesiaaa, 2015-2026.