Our society makes associations to food through cultural ideologies regarding class, gender, race, age and beauty. My most recent body of work: Forbidden Foods, explores the themes of maturity, guilt, sexuality, and their historical association to food. I have developed a series of images utilizing models ranging between 68 to 95 years of age. These works challenge the contemporary conception of perfections, which is limited to modern trends of youth and sexuality. To search for new and innovative perspectives on our relationship to consumable objects has consistently informed my work.


My current work focuses on specific beauty embodied by imperfections, which appear in our lives as crevices, marks, folds and bags. This physical evidence of time is ignorant by consumerism, which is obsessed with new ness. The social value of renewal and youth creates conflicting tension with the physical realities of change and transformation.