Utilizing a lighting kit, I continued to work with my original idea and content. I posted the images that were produced from this venture. However, with new insight I decided to move away from this content but working with similar ideas about selfhood. The new images use this idea of constructing one's self and performing an individual identity to the greater public. Some of my own decisions in constructing my identity ended up in permanent body modification. These distinguish me from traditional conforming norms and femininity. Consequently, these identifiers (i.e. piercings, tattoos, dreadlocks...) force me into a stereotype which I am now bound to through the limitation of others perception of me. This binding is literally placed onto my body in these images.
