This series began with a garment - common, cotton, and quietly loaded. The “wife beater.” A name that bruises before it breathes. (now commonly referred to as a ‘wife pleaser’)
I photographed the people I love in different ways, wearing this garment in their own homes / neighborhoods. Not to echo its violence, but to soften it - to let it hold warmth instead of harm. In these portraits, the tank becomes something else: a vessel for vulnerability, an emblem of ease, a second skin in safe company.
Through tenderness and closeness, I wanted to rewrite the narrative.
To let love, not legacy, shape what we see.
