​Cycles 

Cycles investigates women’s history and considers the structural underpinnings women have lived in across time and culture and how they cycle and rhyme. Inspired by archeological non-fiction, gender studies, poetry, art history, and personal experience, Cycles weaves a fragmented and non-linear exploration of what being a woman means historically and personally. Although limited by an individual lens, the series is not intended to limit what defines womanhood and welcomes ambiguous and broad interpretations of woman-identified and non-binary relations to the work. The complicated layers of the construction of gender mimic the overtly constructed nature of the images and the diverse approaches such as projection, performance, installation, fibers, still life, and landscape. Both constructed and natural, personal and cultural, private and public, internalized and external. 

The series surveys various topics and themes, including the body (ideas of land, water, ritual, fertility, and worship), cultural barriers and violence, interpretations of female-identified poets, and historical figures and events. The work also explores specific personal experiences such as disordered eating and fertility issues.

What does being a woman mean? After years of research and investigation, I still find no clear answer… except maybe everything just is, and isn’t, consistent in its contradictions.  

More about Cycles:
Interview on Lenscratch 
Interview on Catalyst Interviews 
Feature on The Light Factory Photo Arts Center
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