My work brings the darkness and unpredictability of the human mind to the forefront, disguised as beauty. I reveal a melancholic parable familiar to most, yet rarely celebrated. My recent photographic series Lashon Hara (‘Evil Tongue’) is inspired by Abrahamic religions, and uses dramatic lighting and staging to echo and re-interpret Italian Renaissance paintings. Through both these (self) portraits and public interventions by performance troupe, Sylva Dean and Me, featuring my wearable sculptures made from milk cartons, I probe the boundaries between the beautiful and the grotesque.