In my latest series, OUR BODIES, OURSELVES focuses on the multi-generational struggle among all women to be seen and heard and granted the fundamental human rights men enjoy with regards to making decisions about their own bodies and having a voice.
Therefore, with our country’s startling abuse of power when it comes to women’s rights, I created OUR BODIES, OURSELVES. This was the result of a dream I had as I witnessed the destruction of Roe vs Wade. I acted upon this dream and intiated a series of inspiring and influential images to help alter the course of women’s individual voice and freedom. As with my previous studies of women, it seemed natural I (myself) would be the first image to begin this path
OUR BODIES, OURSELVES, (the working title) focuses on
the multi-generational struggle among all women…to be seen and heard, reclaiming the rights to abortion, healthcare, insurance, and gender equality. With each subject I try to capture on film with long exposures the feeling of disappearing both in voice, mind and body.
The female subjects, which includes myself, run the gamut in terms of age, ethnicity, gender, and background. Each is meant to reflect a singular life as well as a collective imperative for personal freedom.
Our Bodies, Ourselves serves as a testimony to this particularly fraught moment in time. As a growing body of work that will ultimately include the full and beautiful spectrum of all those who identify with womanhood, it is also a tool for countering the ideologies of the aggressors in this ongoing assault on women’s rights. Their victory relies on the total disregard of varying perspectives, including myself, which I, like all artists, asserts through my work that the escalating infringements on women’s freedoms are much harder to ignore.
