LensCulture Editor Review

The project began because as a reaction to the large amount of graphic nudity that exists on the internet, movies, and other media. It is everywhere, you cannot avoid it, and it was beginning to make me feel like the act of love and romance was leaving our society. We are getting more focused on the blunt and the graphic representation of love, sex, and romance. Through the process of creating the work it evolved into a conceptual portrait of the particular person. I began creating original images myself during fashion photograph shoots that I was hired to do. And now I have integrated the two processes of my photographic works by using the photographs that I create for the fashion industry and creating these conceptual portraits from them. This imagery takes the myriad of experiences and expectations and blends all of them together. A single image is created by layering hundreds of images of a single person in order to create a ‘sense’ of that person, and how they are in my life. Some of the images end up being representational, while others become more ethereal, which is illustrative of how I see all the people in my life.