The Photography As a victim of the fashion industry and a triangulation of other abuse which resulted in 25 years of eating disorders and panic attacks, my work represents a reaction to what I have experienced over many decades. Now in control of the camera, my body and mind, the work explores the perversity of fashion photography, sometimes highlighting its unspoken pornography merge, its perfection model, its youth obsession, coupled with my own new found boldness which now counters any attack with the authentic and original unretouched self. The photographs generally reveal purposeful flaws, a parody of superficial poses and a warped sexuality in an unlikely context. They also portray a freedom of movement, and irreverence which had been frozen in an ice age of my prior fear of existing in a society which values women as currency for the visual psychosexual stimulation they provide. Although some days the photographs are just a snapshot of who i happen to wake up being, a willful child with many faces and forms.

The Shadow Boxes The history of my work evolves with time, although shaped primarily though childhood experiences in the physical world, which were mapped by psychological mysteries. My obsession with the ecosystem of ocean tidal pools while summering on Money Island, one of the Thimble Islands off the coast of Stony Creek, Connecticut. Endless hours of observing the sun glinting refractions across the skin of the water, sea glass, bits of mica, barnacle adorned shell fragments, miniature fish babies, tiny crabs, anemones, star fish, tangled seaweed shaped in jello molds, like chunky Lucite souvenir paper weights, dense collages of constant change metered by my own internal complexities and shifts of mood. A sense of wonder, magnetized toward found objects and how relationships form in color, juxtaposition, emotion. A private world where I am continuously lost.

- kHyal, ©2005-2007