paris!

je suis arrivee!

this is my apartment. photos courtesy of my roommate, LK.

nudity

quite often i’ve been asked, why i’m constantly naked in my self-portraits. on the contrary, i am only “naked” in eight out of sixty three photos.
but honestly, i consider the human form to be a beautiful thing. if i don’t have to get dress, i won’t. i sleep naked. i wander around my apartment naked (when my other roommates aren’t around). i hang out in my underwear in my room. i like the feel of bare skin.
when i started my project, i didn’t post some photos because i wasn’t quite sure how people would receive them. i knew the flickr community would be far more accommodating than the facebook community. but i’ve come to realize, that since they are self-portraits, being “naked” is a part of being me.
& quite honestly, i don’t understand why society doesn’t just get over this “naked” business. there is a fine line between your natural form & porn. we all came into this world without any clothes, but at some point society tells us it’s “wrong” to be walking about stark naked.
sometimes i think i should have been a nudist.