This portrait taken of my Self is transformed as I teach you how to see me by the power of my own declaration. Through text I reclaim my image from the belittling expectations and ignorance of who I am by wrongful assumptions about me that I am inundated by based on my young female body. I claim the lens of the male gaze by teaching you my own. I am sacred, my root is innocence even at my most sensual, I am more than you know to take in. So I will educate you on who I really am. The assumptive and invisible onslaught of the onlookers of the world is blocked and disrupted by personal statement, keeping a screen across my figure to teach a halting of the gaze by this personal decree

of Who I Know

my Self

to be.

If I were the writer, director, and star of my own life I would...

July 9th 2016

Reflections on the journey of Burning Man 2013

This early painting is an interpretation of one of my favorite artist's work. Gustav Klimt's "The Kiss" flattens plains and uses dynamic texture with gold