Mixed Media on paper

Signed on the back.

This photograph was taken when I was in art school, in a photography class that encouraged us to play with light using a stop camera lens’s.
I was the model of this photoshoot, using a stop still camera lense to capture the light moving. I covered my body in a fur coat, and was leaning on a rock- in a forest in my backyard. My mother owns a lot of vintage clothes, and I borrowed her faux fur coat for this photoshoot.
I have always been insecure about my appearance from a young age, and as I grew older and had more experience in the world I didn’t realise the power I had in my beauty.
This photograph, which is in a series, is about a young women realising her beauty