iSSUES
February 2022 - April 2022
iSSUES was a self created project to promote self creativity and push the limits of how to create what feelings were inside. This project was to shortly mimic a magazine layout each month expanding on a different emotion.
Photography/ Styling/ Media/ Art Direction/ Design/ Concepts
February 2020
February’s feeling was angst. An altogether anxiety of everyone and everything generally. A general annoyance. With the feeling of angst in mind, I wanted to make something powerful and transformative. A hard exterior with a lot to say. I needed to be able to visually see what current state of emotion I have been feeling and express them through art. The creation of the top and the skirt fully out of safety pins with ribbon intertwined between to provide more coverage, as well as a self crafted ski mask. The editing on the photos were done in Photoshop with a custom made edit.
March 2020
March’s feeling was cunty - is a feeling of unashamed confidence. Stepping into the person that I have wanted to become and had inside me screaming to get out. I’ve been told before that a woman’s blunt confidence in her strong beliefs/ opinions, herself, and the options she chooses are because she is selfish, arrogant, and angry at the world around her. But instead of that, I have come to accept that being a cunt is out of survival. It comes from a place deep down, a feeling so indescribable it needs to be blunt and harsh. Cunty. It started with anatomy, to derogatory, to now taking back the name that has been thrown at me for ages. I choose to be a cunt - a strong, blunt, unashamed woman who is confident in herself and strives to be great. The editing on the photos were done in Photoshop with a custom made edit. Styled. Photographed. Makeup.
April 2020
April is the feeling of being a woman. This photoshoot was based on the song Emotions by Brenda Lee. Based on being told that your feelings and emotions are wrong, invalid, and insane. The equivalent today of the term “gaslighting”. I have been told first hand that emotions are too dramatic or that I am overacting. Woman for centuries have been dealing with their emotions and feelings being invalid. I wanted to creatively release these emotions, set them free, release them. The editing on the photos were done in Photoshop with a custom made edit. Styled. Photographed. Makeup.
