ARTIST STATEMENT

I like to think of the things we add to ourselves as armor. We use these things to amplify or mute certain features, and everything we use—from hair and makeup, to jewelry, shoes, jackets, and pants—acts as a layer. Only distorting, never actually changing, the essence of who we are. 

Like armor, how we present our selves is how we protect our selves. Each layer buffering, but never completely absorbing, the kind of feedback that bruises our natural selves—our actual selves. How interesting…the ways we chose to hide while being seen. 

This is one way I hide, while being seen. Self portraits have allowed me the capacity to see myself more clearly. The more I take the more I realize, there’s a lot of tension in honesty. In this medium, it’s not about being honest about who I am, but all the possibilities of who I could be.

And what all those possibilities, in turn, reveal about me.