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SHINNERS

Shinners is an examination of the position of women in subcultural sports. Within feminism, sociological constructs, campy horror, and personal experience I am manifesting the physical and mental obstacles faced in the subcultural sport of Bicycle Motocross (BMX) through photography, painting, collage, video, and sculpture. I interpret images posted to social media of injuries obtained while riding BMX as forms of empowerment, bodily gore as extreme evidence of participation, performative violence, valorizing the understanding of both the physical and psychological pain of failure, and the use of failure as a measure of success, empathy, and breaking paradigms.

The literal scars depicted are battle wounds that I like to call “blood trophies”.

The collected images are both found and donated by women in the BMX community. The work aims to open and continue the conversations surrounding women in sports in hopes that Shinners will further contextualize the anxiety, theatricality, and thrill of finding community, pleasure, and strength through pain.