My work is about the portrayal of female bodies that are intended to be admired by others. Specifically, I focus on the dynamics of sexual objectification; the male gaze that reduces a woman to an object of sexual gratification and the woman’s willingness to participate as signified by her submissive posing and reciprocal gaze back.  I critique this demeaning relationship by disrupting the gaze of the viewer and thereby create a work of art that rejects the tradition of portraiture that objectifies women. I do this by both obstructing the lines of sight between viewer and the viewed, and degrading the photograph to a point where the image becomes incomprehensible.
                       
Becoming independent and living away from home exposed me to the experience of being sexually objectified. I realized, that for many people (specifically males), my identity of who I was as a person was significantly less important than the physical traits I possessed. I began to research the concept of the male gaze as it exists in art. The woman looking out at the viewer, and the viewer gazing back at her, initiates the viewer’s self-indulgent relationship. My work forces viewers to be conscious of their own participation in this objectifying dynamic and my refusal to be seen as a sexual object.