An offering to tenderness that is muscular.  Architectures made of soft, slow, and stubborn, queer matters that require tending to, in acknowledgement of communal being and existence.  I make durational installations and organize immersive and cooperative, community-centered public installations.  My labor is sculpture, fabrication, aerial dance and acrobatics, and independent art organizing.  My practice incorporates intimate collaboration, the performative act of public process, poetry, and ephemera into its presentation and these are an equal part of the work. 

My work is formal, choreography of light, texture and body.  I am concerned with care, tenderness, and loss.  The shapes I build have a likeness to their surrounding architecture or landscape.  I build my body into these shapes.  They make use of the natural movement of water, or wind through the space they take up.  I am attracted to sticky, stretchy and squishy materials with which I can empathize.

I consider the totality of material required to make a work, all of the pieces that get thrown away, the tools to build it.  The work must carry the weight of the waste it produces.

alexandra virginia martin (b. 1993) (any/all) is a queer, genderfluid, sculptor, fabricator, public art organizer and fledgeling aerial artist living and working in Detroit / Waawiyatanong.  they operate the frequently collaborative transmedia project anhelo anhelo.