Desire Body
An exploration of body image, fatness, motherhood, and the cultural expectations that shape how bodies are seen, touched, and remembered. Carefully constructed images bring into focus the tension between desire, power, and vulnerability—particularly as it relates to fat bodies: bodies that are too often scrutinized, regulated, and erased from visual and social narratives.
At the core lies a question of inheritance. Ideals surrounding beauty and worth pass silently through generations, embedding themselves in gestures, language, and self-perception. The visual language speaks to the unspoken lessons of shame, resilience, and dignity absorbed over time.
Social norms are disrupted by presenting fat bodies in moments of tenderness, pleasure, and intimacy—spaces rarely offered in mainstream visual culture. By rendering visible what is often kept private, the work reclaims the act of looking. The gaze becomes a site of resistance, exposing the paradox of being both hyper-visible and unseen.
Pleasure, indulgence, and excess are explored through tactile textures and sensual visual strategies. These elements are not simply aesthetic—they operate as metaphors for the push and pull between attraction and rejection, abundance and control.
By centering fatness and motherhood, the work resists the pressure to conform. It celebrates bodies that fall outside normative ideals, while simultaneously critiquing the systems that generate body shame. Through softness and strength, vulnerability becomes a radical stance—a way to reclaim beauty, visibility, and desire on one’s own terms.