Doll House

Throughout life, people use pictures for many reasons but the main one is to show something, to bring a point across.  The subject of my image is myself, the representation of the women image as a sex toy, and how the way we act, dress or take pictures and upload it to social media apparently leads us to getting sexualy abused, or invite men to view us differently. In this image I tried to make people understand that we, women, are not the problem. The way we dress or act doesn't give you the right to try and do whatever you want with us or our body. We will not change the way we dress because it’s more convenient for your lack of self control. Blame the rapist not the victim.

When I told my mom that my stepfather was molesting me, and she asked him, he denied it and  said that my school skirt was too short and provocative. I was twelve and my school wouldn't let me in if my skirt wasn't down to my knee. He convinced my mom that I was lying, then walked in my room and told me it was going to get worst for me for speaking up. He always saw my body has a toy he could play with whenever he wanted. His excuse? Because I was growing up and turning into a beautiful girl, because I always liked to play dress up and look pretty. Well  that doesn't give you the right to touch me.

Each one of this pictures represent a part of my story and the string in the doll, represents all the string society had attached to us as women, because of the way we dress and or act. Cindy Sherman inspired me to create my own pictures and use my imagination. She made me seen something else in photography, other than just the pictures. Every picture has its own story and mines have a lot to say. A lot of us wish we could change the way man sees us, a lot of us want to have the freedom to wear whatever we want and be as sexy as we can without having to worry about being harassed. We don’t need your attention, we are not inviting you in. John Burger said: “ You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, you put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting Vanity, thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for your own pleasure.” Once again, man blaming us for the way the see us.