[2024]
A Strange Shadow of Looking
Glass, prints on silk
2021
For 13 days -- starting in November and ending in December -- I invited men I had never met to my house in order to photograph me naked. Before committing, each participant would agree to certain terms. Overall, there would be no sexual exchange, but participants could ask for something in return. This included things such as: a conversation, their own photographs taken, to masterbate to me. Each session led to the exchange of documentation of my naked body with some sort of return. Through the documentation, I become aware of the parts each man held the most desire for through what they photographed the most. I would let the participants instruct me, let them pose me. My body became the subject for desire, with the camera as both the barrier and penetrator.