Please Cross Your Legs
Please Cross Your Legs is a visual experiment where I dissect my insecurities and self image in order to understand my fixation with the way I am seen. Using photographs, writing, and my own personal belongings, I document this self introspection and draw connections between my need for validation and the history of femininity.
"If you are going to tell me you don't like this dress, I'm sticking my head right in the oven!" - The Stepford Wives (2004)
“I hate being the center of attention.
When people speak to me, I become hyper aware of my own movements and it feels like I am looking at myself in third person and I cringe. I imagine the person looking at every detail of me, making judgements as I babble.
I started asking people I care about to take my camera and photograph me being me, but I am scared because the reason I take self portraits is because I have control.
”The only thing you can control is your need for control”
But who really cares when you start placing all your value in your appearance.
If I can’t control the way I look then what else is there?
I should know that by now.”
