Collage & Illustration

This series of collage and scan-art works interrogates the visual language of luxury advertising (or the aesthetics of docility), particularly as it relates to femininity, passivity, and commodification. Using images collected over three years from the magazine of one of the most elitist malls in Dallas, Texas, the project explores how bodies are deliberately merged with costly objects.

Drawing inspiration from John Berger’s Ways of Seeing, this work considers the “male gaze” in consumer culture — how bodies are not only portrayed as passive objects of desire, but also become vessels through which objects gain seductive power. The models' expressions are frozen — what I refer to as a “dead gaze” — suspended in waiting, inviting consumption.


This work was exhibited at:

  • Site 131 Gallery. "Professors' Picks Exhibition" Dallas, Texas.

Feminist Research on the Internet

This series of illustrations responds to 4 key themes in Feminist Research on the Internet: Care, Intersectionality, Positionality and Reflexivity.

​The illustrations were used to accompany a text that explores how current methods and approaches to research on the Internet do not sufficiently account for feminist thinking around dynamics of power, politics of location, relationship with participants and access to digital data, and offers theoretical and practical advise for feminist researchers to look at and engage with internet issues.

This work was commissioned by the Feminist Internet Research Network. It is featured in:

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