Over the past five years I've explored the work of a figure model...of a muse.

 

What it means to inspire an artist to draw, to paint, to sculpt, to practice their art after a long day.

 

How to play with shapes and light interacting with my form.

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How to capture movement in stillness.

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How to tell my story without uttering a word.

 

To allow them to observe through me, sometimes seeing me in the process and always seeing themselves.

 

To take up space as a full body, a brown body, a hairy body in mostly white crowds.

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To take up space as a woman.

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To share the dance of my folds, the texture of my skin.

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To have myself reflected back at me over and over again.

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