The Stars Have Eyes
The Stars Have Eyes, 2025
Featuring Heady Desire
In this work, suspense, thriller, and horror film stills, recorded performances, and animations are remixed and re-contextualized to create a subversive visual language. The artist inserts herself into iconic cinematic scenes, becoming both voyeur and participant. These interventions disrupt dominant narratives, drawing attention to the sexual, psychological, and phenomenological subtext often embedded in representations of femininity in media.
Referencing traditions of graphic novels, video art, and cinema, the work navigates feminisms, power dynamics, and creative agency. The imagery oscillates between the humorous, abject, and disturbing, recalling the oppressive history of women’s roles in media. Alfred Hitchcock’s films, long critiqued for their psychological complexity serve as key source material. At the center of this work is the artist's persona, Heady Desire, who infiltrates and reclaims acts of cinematic voyeurism. She embodies and embraces the feminine with her soft, folded fleshiness and dripping excess. As watcher, director, and creative subverter, she dismantles the passive female archetype, transforming
notions of excess into a site of empowerment. What was once "too much" is reimagined as empowered desire and creative agency.
Themes of consciousness, time, and the cosmos emerge as embodied experiences. Through layered imagery and temporal dislocation, the work evokes dream states, liminality, and the porous boundary between self and other. Heady Desire becomes a vessel through which time alters perception and the feminine body becomes a conduit for philosophical interconnections between space, time, and consciousness.