Paper Doll

A note from the artist:

“I started Paper Doll about 10 years ago to experiment with self portraiture. When it began, I was interested in how we create caricatures of ourselves to align with societal standards of beauty. As it developed, it became a conversation in objectification and the experience of feeling like my identity and worth was based in 2D versions of myself, none that were actually authentic, but that can be dressed up and interchanged for different people and situations. It reminded me of playing with paper dolls as a child.”

Each photographic piece is created from multiple images printed on a transparent plastic sheet and layered over each other. Parts of the images were altered or removed and create new images as you can flip through the layers. The ghostly, transforming images of movement, and interplay of selves conjure a dreamlike state of being to represent how our beliefs, ideas of beauty, and rules for how we “must be” to be worthy in society are not actually based in reality.