Collages or oil paintings inspired by collages featuring adolescent girls, are what I use to convey teenage angst and the mindset of teenage girls as they go through life. I typically utilize arbitrary color, to represent emotion, rather than reality. The paintings are usually interrupted in some way by these collage materials, or swatches of paint, so the viewer's gaze moves from the figure, to the patterns and vice versa. 

    I use adolescent/ prepubescent girls as my models who are usually starting straight at the viewer, or are making some kind of emotional expression. The attitudes of the girls I use as models are the main point of importance. I do this specific kind of work with this subject matter because it gives teenage girls and prepubescent girls a space to express themselves, in their best (and worst) forms. Instead of hypersexualizing them, or infantilizing them, which is done in most media. In my artwork, the attitudes of the young women are celebrated, rather than frowned upon. They have power that is strictly their own and they are using it to the best of their ability. The collage elements with decorative qualities represent traditional female roles, and how they are intrusive and invasive into the lives of young women and can be harmful to their psyche. Overall, my body of  work is a feminist take on teenage girls and how they respond to the traditional feminine roles that are thrust upon them.