The Dangerous Power Series
Please understand that although I have a business in portraiture, I am also a fine artist. The Dangerous Series was an exploration of my personal life and used as a healing tool to work through traumatic experiences. If you are not comfortable with suggestive imagery, please do not continue to the other pages on this tab.
Below, I have provided the artist statements for both pages, in case you would like to know more.
I Think I'm Dangerous Now
I Think I’m Dangerous Now, centers around my journey of learning to love myself and embracing different parts of my personality. I have grown into my sexuality and sensualness as I’ve gotten older, discovering that those are very important parts of my personality. I first started thinking about this series in 2020, after I’d gone through a couple of situations, that had very large impacts on my psyche; one of which was quite beneficial, while the other had the potential to be very detrimental.
This series of photographs embraces this idea of being openly sexual and sensual, while simultaneously attempting to make the subject of sex a less taboo topic. The images I’ve created act as an intimate look into myself, while simultaneously attempting to make the subject of sex a less taboo topic. In the year since beginning this body of work, the portrayal has progressed to not only depict self-acceptance but self-love. My hope is that viewers are able to find something within this series to connect to and aid them on their own journey of acceptance and love.
Of Course, It's Dangerous That's Why It's Fun
Of Course, It's Dangerous That's Why It's Fun, showcases the evolution of my self-acceptance and budding confidence into something akin to self-love. I chose to pursue this topic because as much as I accomplished with the works I’d already created, I wanted more. It was important to me to not just be playfully seductive but to capture myself as a temptress. I wanted to make images that go further, are more vulnerable and seductive; striking, captivating, and worth remembering. I believe I was truly able to capture the development of my confidence into something more. If you are wondering where the danger in these works is, consider the societal reality of a confident woman, being perceived as dangerous. The fear of female sexuality. I am no longer as dependent on the opinions of others concerning my physical appearance, which negates the constant need for others to tell me how beautiful I am; because I know I am.
I am beautiful and I am dangerous.
In the Name of a Kiss, for the Sake of My Power
In the Name of A Kiss, for the Sake of My Power is the long-time-coming, third, and final part of my first fine art photographic series. The Dangerous Power series centers around concepts of healing, body-positivity, and self-acceptance, with this part specifically focusing on healing from sexual trauma.
This series of 5 close-up images portray my mouth as the focal point of each image, centering on a now healed injury that I sustained from being sexually assaulted. I have chosen to display my mouth with a variety of decorations and in sexually-suggestive positions that push the underlying narrative. My images are purposefully blurry to imply how fuzzy the memory of this trauma often is. The creation of these images symbolises not only the years of work that I have put in to heal from violent acts committed against me, but the accepted reality that the memory of what happened to me will never be forgotten. While I will live with it forever, my mouth was not theirs to destroy and I am much more than what has been done to me.
The Dangerous Power series is a manifestation of the most “dangerous” traits a woman can have: confidence, sensuality, and anger.