to see and be seen by you

2023
With a desire to return to the materiality of the printed image, I printed large-format photographs of myself, tore them, and rephotographed myself with the fragments. I am curious as to how the process of collage disrupts the gaze, and whether or not it influences how viewers interpret my (literal) body and body of work. What am I risking by tearing myself into pieces? What am I exposing, and what might this choice say about my performance of gender and sexuality?