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Joanna Parker(formerly,Joseph Parker) is a Queer artist working in mixed media with a concentration on the photographic image. Born in rural eastern Washington, Joanna grew up with both the education of two nearby state universities, and the isolation of the country. Their work explores the connections of gender, society, and religion as they try to “queer the world”. Joanna is a 2018 BFA graduate of Cornish College of the Arts. They have been displayed in several group shows, “Femme Fotale” Volume V: Resistance, Resilience, and Hope (spring 2018), “While Supplies Last” (spring 2018), the Cornish College of the Arts BFA show (2018), and Linda Hodges gallery in Pioneer Square Seattle (November 2018), and more.
I am a Pacific Northwest Artist from Washington. My work deals with the mystic, nature, spiritual forces, and energies. Many myths and paganist practices have a lot to teach us of our psyche, but none should be fully taken on its own. All things have to be seen as in connection and in need of balance from the others.
I think that the myths of shiva shed a lot of light with their presentation of gender. The combination is presented as distinct paradoxical wholes which are balanced in shiva. This yogic process of finding balance is the nature of the struggle I am trying to represent in my art. It is a spirit, a force, a balance, a struggle, a revealing, a presentation, an uncovering of a lie. It is becoming whole, becoming free, becoming open, becoming aware, hiding from nothing, being controlled by nothing. Letting your body be its own body and your desires and actions free from the control of binaries, and gender.
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