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 13 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. 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.
The Dangerous Power series is a manifestation of the most “dangerous” traits a woman can have: confidence, sensuality, and anger.
