When my depression works the grave yard shift, 2024
Seeking to disrupt that dynamic, merging the complexity of sisterhood with the burden of objectification. The figures exist in a state of tension, shaped by both solidarity and the exhaustion of being perceived through an external, limiting lens. Through a ‘schizo gaze’, layers, multiple perspectives, creating a fragmented yet more complete representation of womanhood. One that resists objectification and embraces the contradictions, struggles, and power of female identity.
Challenging Simone de Beauvoir’s concept of the “Female Other” by presenting female figures as whole, autonomous beings rather than mere reflections of a male-centered world. De Beauvoir argues that women have historically been defined in opposition to men, positioned as the relative, the deviation, the Other, a role so deeply ingrained that women often internalize it, seeing themselves through the male gaze rather than their own.
