I am interested in the dark and humorous side of desire and beauty and the destructive nature of marketing and advertising on women. This interest has come about through navigating and greatly healing a 20-year struggle with an ED. Before getting treatment, I used creating art and studying feminism as ways to process and cope with my experience. It was on that journey that I began to learn about issues that historically placed women in a role of submission. I create my work as a purge and purification of these ideas. My process helps me to reclaim power over the repetitive images and messages we are faced with on a regular basis.