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On The Images
 

Throughout my work I have explored drawing, painting, sculpture and digital imaging in a process that results in photographic images. 

In my most recent body of work I am exploring playfulness and challenging expected ways of making art. I colored in children’s coloring books with crayons, scanned the images on a flatbed scanner, and had digital c-prints made from the resultant files. When these images are enlarged, the crayon markings are easily seen and followed beneath the photographic surface. I have worked primarily with coloring books about nature, such as field guides, flowers, animals, sea monsters and Aesop’s fables.

Pears were my subjects for a series of photographs because they are a symbol for the female body. I created these photographs to challenge how I looked at the female body, how I had been affected by a culture of images that demands perfection in color, shape and size. I want these photographs to challenge social constructions of female ideals by making them evident, and by showing the physical and emotional damage they cause. The photographs in this series are digital c-prints ranging from 8”x10” to 16” x 20”.
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