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    Statement When talking to Roxane Gay about her work, Jenny Saville said, “you’re the only one who can never see your body in its entirety – you’re condemned to images of it.” Throughout my life I feel as if I have been bombarded by others’ perceptions of my physical identity. Constant comments about my weight, what I look good in, what I don’t, etc. have plagued me since I became aware of the kind of presence a woman should hold in the world. There is a certain authority and degree of intrusion that both men and women feel the right to impose upon female bodies—a destructive evaluation of one's worth based on their physical form. My work is an exploration and visual representation of me trying to figure out my relationship to my body and how it affects the ways in which I move throughout the world. Through photography, I seek to purge the associations we have with particular body parts, hoping to reach a formlessness through intense scrutiny and repetition.

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    photos, body, people, disgust, printing, beauty, curatorial, talking, big, interested, feel, ugly, read, classes, part, thought, photography, self portrait, insecurity, thesis
    "I said it's about beauty. But it's actually really about disgust."
    "And part of the thing I need to do is find out like find a way to bring out the disgust because I feel it but some other people don't."
    "When I took my first photography class as a sophomore here, I could do it alone. And I could do it in my room or like out in the street by myself. And I felt a lot more comfortable in that."
    "I did a curatorial internship at the Jewish Museum. It was like putting together a thesis, which I quite enjoyed doing."
    "I've been looking a lot recently at Jenny Saville right now."
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    Statement When talking to Roxane Gay about her work, Jenny Saville said, “you’re the only one who can never see your body in its entirety – you’re condemned to images of it.” Throughout my life I feel as if I have been bombarded by others’ perceptions of my physical identity. Constant comments about my weight, what I look good in, what I don’t, etc. have plagued me since I became aware of the kind of presence a woman should hold in the world. There is a certain authority and degree of intrusion that both men and women feel the right to impose upon female bodies—a destructive evaluation of one's worth based on their physical form. My work is an exploration and visual representation of me trying to figure out my relationship to my body and how it affects the ways in which I move throughout the world. Through photography, I seek to purge the associations we have with particular body parts, hoping to reach a formlessness through intense scrutiny and repetition.

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