Conceptual Work

Self-Consciousness -

Consciousness Is the most mysterious thing to the human race; we do not have a single scientific explanation yet it controls our entire beings. This is the main force behind religion and spirituality; explaining what cannot be explained.

In this self-portrait project, I work with my various selves through the different realms: physical, mental & emotional, and the spiritual, to visualize my connection to myself, and the larger universe. Light play and manipulation is the driving formal element to this project as well as conceptual. Light is almost equally as mysterious as consciousness but we have begun to figure out it’s basic physics. It is both an energetic wave and a still photon; everything else recorded in the universe is one or the other. It is also the presence of all colors. With light’s metaphysics and my belief that all life is intrinsically connected, I use various lighting and post-processing photo manipulation techniques to visualize life’s most mysterious divine universal connections that I experience.

Title: Untitled

Inspired by Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Still series, Title: Untitled reimagines feminine tropes in our visual culture, from movies to TikTok trends. It is an attempt to further define the “female gaze”" by pairing the standardized depictions of women through the “male gaze,” and subverting them through diverse feminine perspectives. Collaborating with my subjects, we worked together with their various identities to create a new authentic image of their character, not the baseless ones that have contained us historically. Reexamining what strength means outside of the masculine, we used beauty, pose, and fashion to empower each other and create the rightful representations we wish we had a children.