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Constructed Portraits: Make her more beautiful
Constructed Portraits: Make her more beautiful is created using an archive of photographic negatives of women, which I have fed into an AI model with the prompt to "make her more beautiful." I then collage, patch, and re-assemble the female-presenting figure in order to examine the optics of representation and interrogate societal beauty standards.
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Revising History is made by replacing the entire central figure in vernacular photographs with images of myself. I intend the work to engage the audience in a conversation about how historical depictions of women, rife with aesthetically pleasing glamour, are used to help us idealize the American past. Using performative techniques and stagecraft, I transform into a protagonist– navigating her societal expectations sardonically– in order to draw a sharp parallel with the culture of discrimination women still experience today.
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The Rockabillies, published in 2008 by the Center for American Places, is work that examines a unique subculture of participants who have co-opted the looks of mid-twentieth century Americans.
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