The Homographs is a series of psychological self-portraits exploring shame, restraint, emotion, and misogyny, themes which I can identify with having suffered from confusion and a lack of self esteem in varying social situations.

​Turning humour into irreverence, I am engaging in a double-edged performance for the camera where I wish the viewer to think about the relationship between descriptive words and emotions. ​When certain words are associated with women, etymology and its changing cultural interpretations challenge existing history. The Homographs raises questions about how women have been perceived as derisory in the name of humour, absorbed these derogatory terms of language and employed humour as a defence mechanism.

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