Of Myths and Dreams

The Body-without adornment, enveloped by light. The most perfect expressive modality. Universally resonant. Unequivocally evocative. Inherently ambiguous. As an image-maker, I am endlessly captivated by the body’s power to move the viewer beyond the expected, the comfortable. I endeavor, in my images, to chart the boundaries between the body as phenomenon and the body as metaphor. It is at this boundary that the viewer encounters the ambivalence and dislocation of social values, the personal confusion of unresolved identity, and the innate discomfiture in shame-based cultural norms. As such, I have endeavored to explore various permutations of representing the body as expression, rather than as subject.