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This image-sequence is an exploration of the modesty taboo, informed by and referencing digital media's transformative influence on self-image vis-a-vis transgressive self/other interfacing, suggesting notions of the immersive visceral impact of metaphors of self-objectification and the erosion of culture through envisaging the self as other. No, I'm just messing with you. Believe it or not I think seriously about Art sometimes. I try to look at things most people aren't looking at and figure out ways of addressing them in the context of "fine art." I usually end up examining things which are discarded and discounted and try to depict them with the same care another artist might lavish on a mountain stream or a vase of flowers. It seems that a new generation of young women now have the ability to photograph themselves naked in the bathroom mirror. I find this appealing for the obvious reason, as well as the fact that it chronicles an intimate environment you rarely see - another person's bathroom with the junk on the counter and the shampoo bottles on the edge of the tub. It is valuable also for the ways the women choose to depict themselves, the angle of the shot, what is shown and in what way, and the recursive element of it sometimes being a picture of a person looking at a picture of herself taking a picture of herself. I like to take all those things and run them through my own filter and see if I can make a picture that has genuine artistic value. The source materials I am working from are not photos taken by men to arouse the prurient interest of other men. They are self-portraits, and intentional. Unlike most portraiture, the camera is clearly present, often central in the photo, so they are also self-portraits of the camera. There is a lot more content to these if you think about it. These images are 100 percent digital from the moment they are captured by the photographer to the moment you see them now, and at no time in the process have they had any material or physical existence. They were created digitally and are intended to be viewed digitally. Any non-digital reproduction of these images is against my wishes and in opposition to the intent of the work. They were created using MyPaint, a free open-source program with many innovative and useful features, and I recommend it. 
OKAY JUST SHOW ME THE DAMN PICTURES
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