Project_ISM - erotic art & public nudity

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ARTISTS STATEMENT

Working towards love and acceptance of my body has been one of the more difficult - and many times painful - parts of my life. Being anything other than a thin, white, heterosexual girl and having pride in that is such a radical challenge to the Western notion of 'beauty'. Learning feminism and body acceptance and fat pride intellectually is one thing. Actually believing it applies to *you* is another. Ever since I got my hands on a digital camera, taking pictures of myself in the way that I want to be seen, the way I want the world to see me, has been a way of reclaiming my body as beautiful. It has been a way to slowly erode away at all of those negative cultural messages we are all constantly fed. This set is not only a representation of my body. It is also about my reflection through two objects; a mirror and a body form. My love affair with my body has been tumultuous, but is also extremely torrid. So please enjoy these as much as I have enjoyed taking them!

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tea 'plunge'
15 Mar 05
Photos - overload
ZIP - 28 images

ARTIST PROFILE

birthplace: Lynchburg, Virginia
currently living in: Virginia
occupation: Drag queen trapped in a Femme woman's body
age: 23
height: 5'4"
weight: Hourglass divine
starsign: Aries on the cusp of Taurus
biggest passion in my life: Living courageously
I like to listen to: Rain pounding against glass - hard
I like to watch: Pretty girls (inside & out), pretty girls dancing, pretty girls dreaming
I like to smell: Cilantro, ananya oil and a simmering curry
I like to taste: Ahem...pretty girls!
I like to feel: Rough hands on soft skin
favourite part of my body: My abundant clevage, mmm.
favourite part of someone else's body: Brain does it for me every time
Why i shot myself: To reclaim my body
who I'd least like to see shoot themselves: Dick Cheney and all of his evil minions
who I'd most like to see shoot themselves: Morrissey, darrrling
my website/fav website: www.thatbirdsnest.com

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tea is Agony contributor A3389

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