It was such an honor to be asked by the amazing gallery manager, OJ Slaughter at Leica Gallery Boston to make new self portrait work for their INWARD // OUTWARD show - a part of Leica Women Foto Project.

Last month I was handed a beautiful Leica S2 and their 35mm f/2 lens and got to work.

These five self-portraits quickly became an exploration on the emotional toll of religion and purity culture on the female body - how it expects us to feel, what we are expected to give up in the world, the waiting, the demise, the isolation. It was freeing.

My work is hanging alongside Kris Nevaeh Tyler, Marika Belamarich and a mirror installation by Elle DioGuardi.

The reception sold out. If you can, go see the work. It is up until April 22.