ARTIST'S STATEMENT
This collection began when I got angry. Angry at politicians proscribing a one-size-fits-all morality. Angry at religious pundits spouting off tirades of hate for anything that challenges their power base. And angry at a society that sits idly by why their humanity is reduced to a cookie-cutter concept of what is "normal". Contemporary American society is terrified of sex and of the human body; true art is sanitized to remove any suggestion that the nude subject even has a sexual side. Portrayals of the human body are avoided or relegated to out-of-the way places and internet alleys. With this body of work, I have attempted to reveal the human body in a way that releases it from the confines of religious, political, and social repression. In my images light encroaches on dark - - exposing what has been repressed by social, religious and political forces - - forcing the viewer to confront the complexity of human nature.

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