I have always been captivated by a Vogue cover.
There's something about them that stops you completely. The gaze. The light. That particular quality of a face that seems to be holding something back and offering everything at once. They're alluring in a way that goes beyond fashion, beyond styling and mastheads and glossy paper. The best ones have presence. A stillness behind the surface that makes you look twice.
I've spent my whole creative life in two worlds, the world of brands and beauty and visual culture, and the world of presence, of ink and water and the unhurried act of being. For a long time they felt separate. These works are where they meet.
I started placing SoulCircles against iconic fashion covers, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar… not to make a statement but simply to see what happened. What happened was they fit. The circles didn't clash with the images, they completed them. As though presence was always what the cover was reaching for underneath all that surface.
Fashion lives on the surface. Beautifully and deliberately. Presence lives beneath it. These works ask what happens when the two finally meet.
These are personal explorations, an artist's private conversation between two worlds she has always loved.