Beautiful work

When I moved to Troy, NY it was for an intentional shift of lifestyle and to heal from burnout. I love it here. And slowing myself down, traveling less and less... has not been easy however it has been a valuable experience.

Majority of my life I was traveling over 50% of days out of the year. It was both a way of coping emotionally with being someone who never "fit in," and it was my way of moving my various careers forward because I would go where the work demanded and required both for night and day jobs

Yes 💯

I know the wrong people suffer the most but — gah 💀

— we also live in a time where more people are naked online and in erotic imagery than ever before and we are going to be reckoning with that as a culture for the next hundred years or more: POV …

… there is not an online home that can host the work that makes sense ; and another aspect of the piece itself will be the space in which it is eventually exhibited which I want to be a gallery in NYC and/ or L.A. in 2026/27 it might take some time to develop …

… the project is shot POV of me by people I have met on the app this year, the act of having them take the picture while they remain anonymous is integral to the piece as it comments on and asks questions about gaze/ copywrite/ erotic labor/ intimacy/ closets in the digital age …

… This project is also about my transition *out of* sex work after years in&out of the industry-/

The project is shot on 35mm for multiple reasons: the process needed to be a departure from the immediacy and utility of digital photography which is now used on an industrial scale in online SW…

I think too often AA models for recovery require family systems to coddle and forgive abusive, negligent, and simply shitty people.

I remember one dominatrix I knew who became a CPA and her life partner worked in finance; and he lost all of their savings in their late 40’s after she had married him in a risky investment *behind her back* 🥸 talk about a “love test,” 🤮 can’t believe she stayed with him;