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  • FILM [Narrative]
    • smash face
    • i have some of your stuff.
    • heart to heart
    • seeing red
    • shoot
  • FILM [Art]
    • pink! pink! pink!
    • there is a house on fire
    • there will be a film about the fire
    • shoot
    • eat you alive
  • SCULPTURE + 2D
    • on fire
    • there is a house on fire
    • dis-moi que je ne suis pas en feu
    • oops!
    • collage
    • plastic promises
    • whoops!
  • PHOTOGRAPHY
    • portraits
    • flower boys
    • our bedroom
    • eat me
    • diagram of a copernican universe
    • reel
    • insomniac dance
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    • album covers
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Skinny Pretty Sexy (2020)
Buy this and you’ll be skinnier! Prettier! Sexier! Everyday we are bombarded by images of the “ideal” and given false hope that spending money on commercial products can help us achieve a thin, white, westernized beauty standard. The quest for a societally-accepted “pretty” is endless.

In "Skinny Pretty Sexy",  the reappropriation of advertising/consumerist tropes re-contextualizes the conversation, allowing viewers to question the social mores and messages images can promote. The use of pink and muted pastels (stereotypically feminine colors) aims to reassert the power of femininity and enact a questioning and toppling of limited, gendered expectations that revolve around an idealized, physical appearance. Additionally, the ordering of the words Skinny, Pretty, Sexy is meant to send a subtle, yet universal, message of distress...an SOS (or in this case SPS) sent by a body drowning in a sea of expensive products that falsely claim to bring happiness via external appearance. The piece ultimately prompts viewers to question the images and products they encounter on a daily basis in a deep consumerist, media sea. 
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  • home
  • FILM [Narrative]
    • smash face
    • i have some of your stuff.
    • heart to heart
    • seeing red
    • shoot
  • FILM [Art]
    • pink! pink! pink!
    • there is a house on fire
    • there will be a film about the fire
    • shoot
    • eat you alive
  • SCULPTURE + 2D
    • on fire
    • there is a house on fire
    • dis-moi que je ne suis pas en feu
    • oops!
    • collage
    • plastic promises
    • whoops!
  • PHOTOGRAPHY
    • portraits
    • flower boys
    • our bedroom
    • eat me
    • diagram of a copernican universe
    • reel
    • insomniac dance
    • los angeles vegetation
    • miscellaneous
    • travel
    • album covers
  • COMMERCIAL
    • Album Covers
    • BuzzFeed
    • BuzzFeed - Nifty
    • Cantiq LA
    • Gingerly Witty
    • Harbor Freight Tools
    • HelloGiggles
    • Mitú
    • Moon Juice
    • Paramount
    • Swaje
    • Tiny Bangs
    • Topology Eyewear
    • Vegamour
  • YOUTUBE
  • POETRY
    • Books
    • Poems
    • Upcoming Readings
  • CV
  • about
  • contact