UpCycle, 2022

Staged photography piece juxtaposing the avenues through which entropy acts in the biological world.

The physical objects that play a large role in women’s health & autonomy are often obscured from media presence. This practice is born from a culture of shame, secretiveness, & taboo undertones that shroud important truths about the female experience beneath a veil of manufactured congeniality. I feel a responsibility to incite & participate in discussions that normalize being a woman & uplift our access to human rights & reconnect us to the reality of our bodies. There is a dissociation felt between the experience of actually being a woman & the act of being a woman. I believe this break between presentation & lived experience is capitalized upon to deliver judgements & exert control over women’s choices. A human’s life is their own canvas & they deserve independent creative control over it. The freedom to decide where one’s creative energy is channeled is a fundamental right of human consciousness.
I repurposed an empty birth control package as a tiny plant nursery to illustrate the symbiosis between creative control & growth. I believe the most important role of consciousness in art & human history is the recognition of options & the ability to choose whichever path is best suited toward the vision one is working to achieve.

* This creation is framed