Hot Stuff

Completed during the Master of Design program at Emily Carr University of Art + Design

Chances are that throughout your life you’ve been confronted with a load of differing, contradictory opinions about sex — from movies and over-the-top moans, to shaming, to popular culture building it up to be this big thing, a badge of honour for having it for the first time.

With Hot Stuff, a series of playful still lifes, I wanted to challenge a lot of the dramatic constructs surrounding sex; to have the audience think about the private and public realms of sexuality, considering how we simultaneously hide it away and celebrate it.

One of the largest, most pervasive attitudes I wanted to challenge is ‘sex as a serious thing’; with any hiccups during the act seen as embarrassing or wrong. Contextualizing these sexy messages through seemingly innocuous objects and bright colors, my goal is to create an ode to sexual freedom by reminding a viewer not to take things too seriously, to laugh a little even when things do go wrong, and to make sexuality a lil’ more real.