My work concerns the dialectic emerging at the interface of polarized gender views, examining the misrepresentation of the feminine by the masculine. This is meant to critique society’s past expectations of women, while imposing a radical position upon the subject of self‐perception, in the light of societal norms.

The images of the erotic feminine come from the volume, How to Photograph Women (Dixon’s World Of Photography.) Introduction: “The book points out the preliminary do’s and don’ts of photographing girls and helps you to tackle nude, glamour, romantic, and fashion photography.” The majority of the images are contrived and erotic suggesting the feminine is most beautiful when considered sexually desirable. The words of R.D. Laing’s Sonnets—create a vernacular deviating from “patriarchal mindset,” necessary for illustrating the conversations suggested by Dixon’s book.

The personal photographs and menstrual blood are documentation of political protest in the name feminine reproductive rights and protection. Their purpose is to stress the underlying reality to the sexualized fantasy of the feminine—that the womb‐man is not purely an object of lust and reproductive oppression.

The synergy of these elements evolve to function as an examination of the masculine by the feminine—with evidence of a reluctance to be confined by vapid interpretation. Undeniably political, my work is meant to challenge female domination with that which is softly uncanny.