Little romances

When considered as an object, the photograph exists physically in the world, it belongs to someone; it gets held, it has weight, value. It was this interest plus the recurrent use of my images online without my permission that motivated the series Little Romances. I have always made very personal work, my current emotional state and interests get translated directly into my images. Most all these images reflect questions and anxieties about being a woman, navigating what that means; what is expected of me versus what I’m capable of. I’ve always been fascinated by women who are feminine, who are comfortable in their bodies and with sexuality.

In Little Romances I photograph prints of my photographs and they become a physical object; my object. I surround them with elements from my garden or other personal items not to evoke nostalgia or sentimentality but to deepen my physical connection/claim to these images and distance them from the viewer. The object-image becomes obscured, repurposed, diverted, so that its original intent remains safe from viewing and at the same time it lends itself to a new narrative.

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