2018

I have started to use more private aspects of my body. Reclaiming the internalised objectification of the male gaze. In my recent photographic experimentation's Mirror/Body (2018), I used the reflections of a 'make-up' mirror and my laptop camera to dissect parts of myself, critiquing normative understandings of desire and feminine identity, using my body as both subject and object. Voyeuristic and discomforting, it encapsulates my preoccupation with the often diametrically opposed states of sexuality and domesticity. These works provoke unaddressed experiences from my personal life, dissecting myths and beliefs I have followed since I can remember. 

I have always explored the different elements of what materials possess in and out of their original contexts. Now my body, and the eye of the lens have become my main materials for exploring personal and political understandings of the domestic sphere.

States of existence, both in the physical and emotional realm have allowed me to navigate around experiences as an artist and a woman. Investigating the transitory nature of my identity, this new awareness has taken on a voyeuristic approach as I explore my own autonomy through the lens of the camera. The distorted reflections in the mirror authorized a change in perception. Dismantling the everyday myth of women as object, I was able to use my own body to metaphorically carve up the male gaze and occupy this newly discovered terrain within myself. The discomfort and shame I felt added to the complex nature of reclaiming what was already mine in my mind's eye. The mirror was also reflecting back at me, my own feelings about my body I didn't know I possessed.