My work pulls from discourses centered on the imaged body, consumer culture, body aesthetics, and illness. In my projects, through the production of personal objects, photography, video, and performance, these divergent discourses are visually linked.

I find similarities between images that intend to project ideals and those that display subversive or even abject bodies. Fore example medical imagery, pornography, and advertising display anatomy, often using similar positions and compositions. Contextual cues are necessary to clarify how the bodies are interpreted. These include the format of an image, such as medium and location, and the placement of objects (or lack of) alongside the body in an image.

Objects and their relationship to the body play an integral role in negotiating the disconnect between idealized images of the body and the physical body. By surrounding our bodies with objects that are seen in images alongside the ideal body we hope to amend the imperfect reality of our own form.

The attributes of those objects, fashionable, beautiful, and timeless, are projected onto the body. The objects take on talismanic characteristics. Owning and specifically wearing these objects is a way to appropriate from them the qualities we covet. For example, in the case of jewelry, gold’s brilliance, indelibility, and its unoxodising surface signify beauty, purity, and immortality, qualities that are also desirable in the body. The objects, alongside photographed bodies, become inextricably connected to our conceptualization of the body in general.