My work explores the female existence within established concepts of beauty and worth. Through a variety of media it challenges aesthetic standards that create restrictive archetypes and shape beliefs. It presents visual realities that invite and defy aesthetic expectations. It records the damage pervasive beauty canons and limited definitions of these create in a group and in an individual’s perception of body, beauty, and self worth.
It explores a series of visual commonalities-- aesthetic systems within a class, culture, or social structure. The varying definitions of beauty and their subjectivity that form collectively and organically or are passed down inter-generationally.
