XS

In this series of photographs, entitled XS, my body unapologetically occupies the space within the frame. Pastel bodysuits and tights transform my fleshiness into new landscapes and amorphous shapes. These cropped images of various body parts such as stomach, thighs and hips become a formal study of the parts of me that society has shunned. In much of my work, I am attracted to the overlooked, abandoned and unacceptable. Using the same mode of thinking, I turned the camera on my corpulent body. With these photographs, I create a quiet resistance that subverts traditional ideas of beauty. I am in control of these images of a body that society tells me is out of control.