This body of work started as a FMP project during FAD (Foundation Art and Design), progressing to a collection of lingerie displaying the confusing thoughts and feelings that come with growing out and existing with body hair as a woman. After the project came to an end, I decided to continue growing out my hair. I found myself attatched to it, like it was an actual part of my body rather than just an additional element, and for the first time, wanting other people to see and feel it too.
After Co-Founding "She/Her/They Collective", an artist exhibitioning group exploring Image, Identity and Form, this project was revived, looking at it from a new perspective nearly a year later. In that time, body hair became an even more pivotal part of how I've formed a new identity - but one that's heavily linked with queerness. My work now is a continuation of the person I was before but through the eyes of someone who's grown in their idenity and realised just how much being queer impacts not only art but their relationship with their body. So I guess I'm queer and hairy?