The Body Without A Body

Erika Evangelista

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What happens when innocence no longer feels safe, but instead becomes something fragile, exposed, and easily changed? This project explores my personal connection to vulnerability, intimacy, and the emotional pressure of constantly feeling perceived. Through symbolic still life imagery, I wanted to reflect the quiet ways innocence can shift over time into discomfort, insecurity, or corruption. This project focuses on themes of purity, exposure, and emotional fragileness, using objects that feel soft, delicate, or easily damaged to represent those ideas. The purposes of my images is to feel intimate and personal without fully revealing itself, questioning what they are looking at and why it feels unsettling. Most of my project came from my own experiences of overthinking appearance, intimacy, and the feeling of being emotionally exposed.

What remains is not innocence itself, but the memory of how it felt before it had to protect itself.