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these are four of the photos that I’ve been working on for my final project. One of them is a long strip that’s 12×30 and contains close up photos of my body to explore the role of gender in my life, and to try and take the bigger context of what I look like out of the picture so that maybe the body parts are mysterious and you don’t know who they’re connected to.

The second strip contains 3 different photos that I put together on one 12×30 strip to send to the Durst. The first one is about the senses, seeing and hearing a concert. I have the concert in color and my eyes in black and white to juxtapose the wildness of the venue and the solidarity of experiencing it. This fits into gender as well because in the large wild venue you can slip into the crowd and be a nameless person without labels. The second photo is of me in an apple orchard where I look very androgynous, which fits into my idea of gender. The last three photos are also of me in the apple orchard, and I like the symbolism of the apple as an object that divided and shamed the genders because of the garden of Eden, and represents the inferior gender of womanhood.