Past Flesh

This photography project explores the intersection of perception, history, and the human body through the abstraction of form. Using a macro lens, I intentionally obfuscate my images, dissolving sharp details into a haze of color and shape. This distortion invites viewers to engage with the subconscious, where recognition is felt rather than seen.

By evoking sexual imagery from various historical generations, I explore how desire, censorship, and cultural narratives about the body evolve over time. Color and form serve as visual language, conveying how human sensuality has been expressed, repressed, and reinterpreted throughout different eras. Through soft-focus abstraction, my work blurs the lines between past and present, realism and imagination, intimacy and anonymity—challenging viewers to question what is remembered, assumed, or constructed in their perception of the human form.