Identify Identity

Growing and developing as a young woman, I have constantly looked to other females as my beautiful subjects and works of art themselves, but never in the mirror. I rarely saw myself as a possible subject as an artist. After years of projecting my views of others onto a piece of paper or through a lens I challenged myself to create my first successful self portrait. Through the color red, please do not perceive this as anger towards the male gaze (however I am always angry at the male gaze) but as anger towards how long it took for me to reject the beauty standard and accept myself. This collection of eighteen panels is the embodiment of my personal struggle with my identity and self worth.