Power.  It all comes down to power.  


My photographs are a physical manifestation of the power struggles
that I have witnessed first hand or as a bystander to the images
propagated by mass media.  My black and white self-portraits borrow
the aesthetics of the master fashion photographers of the 1950's:
elegant, refined, stylized, and above all beautiful.
Beauty also plays into this equation of power, at least for women.  I
am deeply affected by the images of women that I have witnessed from
infancy to the present day, images that are largely controlled by men,
by their fantasies, by their insecurities.  My motivation behind
shooting myself is simple: it is important that a modern day woman
pursue the right to control her appearance.  I am intent on
controlling the way that a viewer is allowed to see me.  Whether I
choose to perform for the camera or lay bear a certain truth, it is my
decision.

I like to leave room for the viewer to make their own interpretation,
to get lost in fantasy, comedy, tragedy, or beauty.  There are times
that the work is playful, figure seated playing a child's game or
dodging basketballs, other times the sexual undertones become overt
with the figure splayed on a shag carpet or undressed before the
viewer.  Every images is controlled by me representing some aspect of
my identity, as a female, but more importantly as a person.  I intend
for my pictures to work on various levels but usually challenging a
common notion that deals with the way women are and allow themselves
to be sexualized.


So I guess it all comes down to two things: power and sex.