Your art gives you complete freedom in representing the female body. What draws you to this particular aesthetic ideal? Some might interpret it as an image shaped by male desire, but what does it reveal about femininity and body perception? Have you ever considered depicting male avatars as well?

There are actually a few male characters in my repertoire, including a new one in my most recent exhibition ‘Hell Is Hot’! I honestly just think the female body is so much more fun and interesting to paint. Also, since this is a self-portraiture project, and I would consider myself deeply feminine, I just naturally gravitate toward that form, although the fact that masculine figures do appear from time to time is telling, when they are the exception that proves the rule. As for this conversation about male desire or “the male gaze” as it is often referred to in the context of women as subjects, I find it to be a pretty tired conversation. I’m not really interested in what some hypothetical male audience wants or doesn’t want, and I am careful to not make art in reaction to or even in spite of that imaginary. Like, okay, we all know misogyny = bad, but the aesthetics of misogyny are often just beauty.