‘RECLAMATION’ by
ACACIA_C
PRIMARY - 18 JUN 2017
"I took this shoot as an opportunity to comment on society's sexualization of the nude female body and conceptually divided my folio into three interconnected parts: Representation, Revelation, and Reclamation. In Representation, the series comprised of shots in my bedroom, I am representing my body as women's bodies are often represented by others (primarily by men): as fragmented parts of a whole, desirable for someone else's pleasure. In Revelation, I am cleansing myself in the bath to reveal the self that lies below the artificial representation of "woman" I've been taught to embody. In the final series, Reclamation, I am shooting mostly outside to claim nudity as a natural state, playing with natural elements and exploring the animal within the constructed "human". In the final photos of the shoot, I pour my own period blood all over my body, playing with the idea of being "dirty", which is often used as a derogatory or sexual term, but only derives this meaning from the human/nature dualism, since "dirt" exists relative to "clean", which is something we maintain by building walls to separate us from the dirt of the world, which is in fact natural, and we should embrace!"
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