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As a child, born into of family of political activists, I was constantly reminded that society was often unjust in its distribution of resources… |
As a child, born into of family of political
activists, I was constantly reminded that society was often unjust in
its distribution of resources, and that race, gender and socio-
economic status is always an individual’s shackle or crown. And so
growing up, an awareness of social and political issues had been
embedded into the concrete of my moral foundation. Given this
background, it is no surprise that my work has often explored the
psychological impact that social injustice has on the individual. My
images are illustrative of the dialogue that exists between primal
human instincts, the individual’s need of social acceptance, and the
demands of cultural prerequisites.In
recent years, my work has narrowed its focus within the wide range of
social issues to a subject that has a direct effect on my gender:
issues regarding women’s assignation of roles within a cultural setting
and the gender’s self-imposed emotional incarceration to conform to
unobtainable demands.It
is this enslavement of the female gender that I strive to depict. The
self perpetuated subjugation and the social and cultural ramifications
that hundreds of years of nonequivalent roles dictated by civilization
has procured the branding of a stigma that has incapacitated women
since the start and has robbed this gender of historical accolades.In
my work, the subject neither rejoices nor repudiates. The child-like
figures stand in an empty space immersed their own innocence, apathetic
to those pesky impediments borne by women outside my canvas.
