All we have Ever Wanted is to be Seen.

2024, BFA Thesis Exhibition

I am a woman. I have always known, even from birth, that I am her and spent my life learning to perform it. Poses of glamorous women overlaid on an impressionable child and images of powerful men in suites was my first exposure to gender. Yet none of them are me. Now I ask, are these people a reflection of us? The perfect feminine in painting and the dominant masculine in paper, are extremes that barely exist, in reality don’t we fall in between? Before the hand held image there was the salon, before icons there was the ideal. From these pictures, without knowing it, we have built culture and therefore: gender. But now when I gaze upon the historic gallery wall I find gaps of our identity. I aim to begin to rectify that because All we have ever wanted is to be seen