Personal Statement: I use explicitly derivative imagery in the hopes that it helps the viewer, like me, consider the narratives that we passively absorb, and also suggests that we might exercise power by becoming more proactive subjects who are capable of speaking from precise and distinct perspectives. I think carefully about the degree to which male subjectivity, in the form of the male gaze and female objectification/exotification, causes women to see themselves through the eyes of others, and how to challenge this through a visual story. The images I collect and incorporate are from magazines, “fine” art, romance novels, facebook, personal photographs, and film stills. In other words, the story is created from a collection of images; the sources are those that I determine have provided me with this or that categorical narrative in the first place.