The goal.
When I started this series, I knew I wanted to do a public showing. Being in the Midwest and surrounded by conservative influences, it took me five years to gather the courage to do so…and I was met with nothing but gratitude. Even in this bastion of repressiveness (perhaps especially so), we are drawn to beauty and to the nude form.
I created Shapes to extricate nudity from sexuality – to cause the viewer to see beautiful patterns and motion before realizing they’re seeing a nude photograph, thereby stripping away the stigma that surrounds nude photography.