Thesis Work

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This is part of an ongoing project started in New York. My thesis revolved around the viewer witnessing something that they weren’t quite privy to. My goal was to create a body of work that the viewer’s mythology could be applied to. Without any information about the images the viewer is forced to tell their own story. The blank look and ID-like cropping served this process in a similar way that advertisers hope that you will project yourself into their ads. It is voyeuristic and confrontational at the same time. You are looking at me, but I am looking at you.

John Berger talks about the female gaze in his book Ways of Seeing. This influenced me greatly as well as Rollo May’s writing on the creative process in The Courage to Create and his writings on mythology. My biggest inspiration for this project was actually Freda Kahlo.