Brutalist Body originated as a means to study how physical structure affects the emotional zeitgeist of a body of work. This inquiry evolved into a reckoning with the archetype of the yielding woman, who is seen as passive, docile and overtly devout. Femininity is often treated as a reaction to a natural masculine state of being - but it is porous, structural, and entirely self-withstanding. This artwork combines rigid construction materials with the femme body and psyche, as proof of the unity of femininity and strength. The result is objects that range from action-oriented photographs screen printed onto large slabs of concrete to printed still lives of delicate scenes that showcase the metamorphic nature of the materials. 
The presiding maleness within the history of photography as well as art in general, leads many to feel semi-seperate from the canon. Feminine art history is situated less on aesthetics and more on compulsion and practicality. This is most apparent in the traditions of functional craft and totem creation rather than simply an idealization of beauty. Working within the framework of queer experience and the artist’s own actively constructed sense of femininity, Brutalist Body is an honest representation of allowing one’s self to be concerned with the confrontational feminine as evidence of bodily worship, and a means of autonomizing the gendered narratives in art.