05/02/2026
• A R T I S T • S T A T E M E N T • For centuries, the female form has been staged as a spectacle, an object to be adorned, desired, and dissected beneath the unyielding scrutiny of the inquisitive male viewpoint, known as the male gaze. This work confronts that historical inheritance, the voyeuristic lens that seeks to claim women’s power by rendering them visible, yet voiceless.
The dress, an assemblage inspired by Paco Rabanne’s 1960s futurism, I see the eye as
protection for the wearer. I am presenting a traditionally female associated garment,
which covers the female form in a sort of decorative armor, the surface alive with all-
encompassing lenticular eyes, shifting along with the body, transforming the wearer’s body into a site of resistance, where the act of being seen is no longer passive, but weaponized.
In this piece, the male gaze is inverted and what once surveilled, now protects, what once diminished, now empowers. Through this work, the female form ceases to be an object and instead emerges as
a sovereign presence; the seen becomes the seer.
Perspective Shift, 2026.
Acrylic, vintage lenticulars, brass.
