A Body That Does Not Know Shame

I started by asking myself what are the spaces I frequent- my room, the school, some parts of New York perhaps? On a late night cab ride- as the cityscape whizzed past me- the answer came unbidden- my body. My body. I made a deconstructed self portrait- focussing on the lines, shapes and contours of my body- addressing the sometime-uneasy relationship I have shared with it. It is a mixed media collage using scraps of material I found on the streets- something I have always enjoyed doing.