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Beauty Shots

The 7 Deadly Sins

My images are reinterpretations of the seven deadly sins that are influenced by the saturated, high-key lighting and plastic-like, idealized figures in David LaChappelle’s photography. My work describes these seven sins as lightweight misdemeanors. Each image is decadent, defining a fantasy world that does not exist. Instead of reading these sins as deadly and sinful, they are expressed as lush and wonderful. The campiness of each image pokes fun at both total libidinous freedom and Sunday school morality. In these images, desire is posed as ridiculous cliché. Desire, like a movie with the theme of a mushy love story, is so predictable and overused, that its portrayal becomes the core absurdity of my work.

Seductively tasteful, each image brings new meaning to the term, “Hurt so good.” In other words, the formality of my work is an exploration of the human thought process. Each of the seven scenarios is carefully constructed to create a visual narrative.

In my work, I reconstruct the American dream, biblical stories, myths of college life, and fairy-tales. My work also addresses gender roles/gender assignment, racial stereotypes, domestic relations and the underlying threads of “every man for himself,” that underpin American society. I represent stereotypes in an effort to critique them by using discomforting, dry humor to create images, which are meant to be laughed at, not with. Certain features or mannerisms are exaggerated for satirical effect.

In my works, I construct scenarios in which I place my models. I use computer manipulation to place them in idiosyncratic and sexualized settings that are esthetically and intellectually riveting.

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