The Body Without a Body
Erika Evangelista
erikaevangelista0809@gmail.com
What happens when innocence no longer feels safe and becomes something fragile and exposed? 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 and insecurity. This project focuses on themes of purity, exposure, and emotional fragility, using objects that feel soft, delicate, or easily damaged to represent those ideas. The purpose 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 experience 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.
