Reason for Subject Choices:

 Influenced by Surrealism and Conceptual Art, her work often featured recurring symbolic motifs such as birds, mirrors, and skulls. The artist’s exploration of sexuality and the body is often compared to both Hans Bellmer and Man Ray. “I feel like I a floating in plasma. I need a teacher or a lover,” she once wrote. “I need someone to risk being involved with me. I am so vain and I am so masochistic.”