CARNAL DELIGHTS I (2023)

Carnal Delights is a provocative and evolving photographic series that interrogates the intersections of queerness, sexuality, kink, and liberation. Through unapologetically explicit imagery and a tongue-in-cheek sensibility, the work challenges cisheteronormative constructs of desire, inviting viewers to reconsider their own relationship to shame, pleasure, and the erotic.

Rooted in queer experience, the series celebrates sex as a site of connection, resistance, and joy. Fetish aesthetics- gloss, texture, costume, and anonymity- merge with the raw immediacy of snapshot photography to create surreal, intimate tableaux. The resulting images feel at once candid and constructed, personal and performative.

By embracing the “deviant” with wit and intention, Carnal Delights resists moral legibility, instead proposing a vision of sexuality unbound by convention- joyous, strange, and defiantly free.

Person in silver protective suit with a hood, bound with black rope, sitting on a bed in a dimly lit room.
A person with short dark hair and pierced ear, with red melting wax and a lit red candle on their shoulder.
A person with a human body and a bunny mask crouching on top of a bed with a white headboard and a beige bedsheet, against a plain white wall.
Close-up of a rolled cotton swab with white, fluffy cotton and a metal stem, resting on a fabric background.
Close-up of a woman with dark hair wearing black fishnet stockings and red high heels, lying on her side on a wooden floor.
Person covered in colorful paint, smiling and holding their face with both hands.
Close-up of a person with black hair, bright red lipstick, and eye makeup, touching their face with fingers.
A person painting a wall with orange paint, with some area of the wall unpainted and white. The person’s hand is visible, holding a paintbrush or roller.
A topless woman lying on her back with eyes closed and arms behind her head, balancing a lit red candle on her nose against a white background.
Two yellow smiley face stickers with winking eyes and big smiles on a white textured surface.
Person lying on a bed wearing a shiny purple skull mask with horn extensions.
Broken colorful swirled lollipop on asphalt ground.
A person's face smiling through a yellow collar made of duct tape, with the top of the head and eyes covered.
A nude male with a computer-generated face, sitting on a yellow sofa with among pink cushions, on a wooden floor with a yellow wall behind him and a green plant to the right.
A person's lower abdomen with an animal skull placed over the umbilical area, with white pants unzipped to expose the pubic hair.
Two hands holding small red candles, casting shadows on a plain background.
Person wearing a black, shiny, hooded suit with their face covered by a yellow smiley face mask showing a happy expression, against a cloudy sky background.