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Encasement Series Like all living things, the human body is in constant action/change. The body grows, degenerates, harbors disease, brews cancer, and secretes fluids. Bones break and mend. Joints decay. Our skin wrinkles and scars. The body builds fat and muscle only to break them down. I watch my family and friends struggle with age, weight, disease, sexuality – even the slightest blemishes triggering frustration, anger or sadness. We seem to all share the belief that we are separate from our bodies, defining ourselves as a mind or spirit encased in a membranous sac of skin and bones. Yet from our bodily forms, we may derive insatiable pleasure and/or self-conscious self-loathing, inextricably linking our physical and mental beings. My photographs try to capture moments of self-exploration in which people attempt acceptance of their constantly evolving physical self or struggle against it for unattainable control.
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