When I Was 15
2015
When I was 15 I starved myself.
I thought that if I was thin enough, beautiful enough, someone would find worth in me. Eventually, hiding my secret and hating myself became exhausting. For those reasons and countless others, I decided to “get better.”
My investigations explore the constructs that fuel these types of disorders. Through the lens of my own experience I am creating a body of work that recovers my past. Chocolate, language, and image interact as units and metaphors in my work. I realized I had to explicitly talk about my personal experience. For the first time in years I’m acknowledging that I denied myself one of the most basic facets of survival.
When I was 15 I starved myself.
Nothing Tastes As Good As Skinny Feels
Chocolate, tin foil, and craft paper
Untitled
Lay's Classic Potato Chips and stamped oil paint
Self Portrait
Chocolate screen print
Self Portrait, Deteriorated
Chocolate screen print
Stomach 1
Chocolate screen print
Stomach 1, Deteriorated
Chocolate screen print
Stomach 2
Chocolate screen print
