Histronyx
Brooke Driscoll
Overarching themes : gender, femininity, masculinity, domesticity, trauma, healing, feminine violence, repression, relationships, human interaction, architecture, impermanence, love, pain, memory
histronyx@gmail.com
Brooke Driscoll
Overarching themes : gender, femininity, masculinity, domesticity, trauma, healing, feminine violence, repression, relationships, human interaction, architecture, impermanence, love, pain, memory
histronyx@gmail.com
“-A means to express repressed femininity-”
Graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Brooke Driscoll (Histronyx) is an interdisciplinary artist working between traditionally feminine and masculine crafts seeking refuge in the between.
In creation, I am encompassed by an insatiable need to find the means by which I can express my repressed femininity. Soft palettes are met with harsh landscapes to explore a violent and fractured relationship between my outward expression and inward reflection. Delicate woven structures are sheilded by a blanket of rigidity, and metal bows are adorned with pearls in homage to ornamentation. Through altering feminine signifiers—bows, soft fabrics, pastel colors—material dissonance causes their expectations and classifications to alter. This perceptual manipulation acts as a mirror to my essence.
In being a masculine woman, there are pressures to perform masculinity through behavior so that it matches one's physical representation. A splitting accompanies this behavior; parts of oneself are buried beneath a persona so carefully crafted that it cannot crack, while its counterpart masks the forgotten. I seek to push through this crafted persona, move through the shell and find a space where I can rest within a softer self. I am navigating a figmental world in which I am safe to display delicate tendencies; embarking on a journey that documents the process of healing and rebirth. Searching for a home to rest, a place to be free. Somewhere in which...