Through ceramic sculpture, installation and performance, uncomfortable as i am demands empathy from the viewer.
Using her literal body and clay as the allegorical same, Dakota confronts the ideas of discomfort and transness with a challengingly intimate lens. In video performance, she offers vulnerability to the onlooker, inviting them to disarm themselves of preconceived notions and act as witnesses.
Through faceless clay sculpture, Dakota invites the ability to inhabit, if for a moment, another’s body.