Our culture associates nudity with sexuality. With this project, I'm hoping to open up a conversation that questions that premise. Perhaps these two sentiments, nudity and sexuality, can be teased apart, so we can have one without the other. Or at least not have sexuality and nudity be synonymous with each other. It's clear that women are sexualized & objectified just as much with their clothes on as they are with their clothes off. And breasts are for breastfeeding, so there's some cognitive dissonance at play when we don't want children to see them. Why are we teaching children that breasts are sexual objects for fetishizing? I mean that must be weird for them when they have spent the first year or two of their lives sucking on breasts as their primary source of nourishment. I’m interested in portraying nudity as something that is not special, where it is no big deal, where it is simply a part of being human. With these photos I'm hoping less to contrive shiny pinnacle moments, but more to emphasize a kind of raw connection between humans.

I like to think of casual and social nudity as a part of the body positivity movement. And it seems to me to be generally good for our mental health to remember what we all got underneath our clothes.