Girls with Fruit Vol. 2

I create narratives about women regardless of their ethnicity, age and body type. Inspired by Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon and Carrie Mae Weems. I combine my favorite attributes of each photographer to create my style. Diane Arbus created images of so called ‘freaks’ with a documentary lens, Richard Avedon captured a woman’s beauty in magazine layouts and Carrie Mae Weems engaged audiences with a black woman’s historical narrative. My portraiture work documents, editorializes and shares a narrative about women to the world. In Girls with Fruit Vol.2, I continue to explore Mythological and Biblical stories as well as previous medical knowledge that were told to explain and control women’s bodies. These stories explained: how infertile women can become pregnant (eat pomegranates to increase fertility), why do women need to be punished (Eve eating the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge than being expelled from the Garden of Eden) and why women too often become crazy or hysterical (too much grapefruit in their diet); as if there could not have been a sociological reasons for their behavior. These stories continue to be perpetuated onto girls at an early age and continue to influence them to and through adulthood.