From the moment we are born, society begins to shape and define us, but we must remind ourselves that we are something more.  

I am not who you say I am
Life size digital print
2009

As a young woman, the artist remembers talking to the mirror in her grandmother’s dressing table to express her frustration with societal pressures to conform.  All she wanted to do was to scream, “I am not who you say I am,” but she suffices by writing on glass covered in steam.  

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