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" Putting your work out there is scary! "
Petra Collins
Work Out
Your
Work
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" I post all the time anyway. It's part of who I am. There's me IRL. There's me URL. That's just my life. Plus, I love it. It's amazing to connect with so many people. "
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" With social media and all the new technology, there's just more interfaces around and reminders to constantly be working on our body. "
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" I'm either working or I'm lying in bed the entire day. "
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" I consider myself endlessly lucky to have access to the Internet and technology. Through it, I've found myself and have been able to join a new discourse of females, young and old, who strive to change the way we look and treat ourselves. "
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" Hashtag activism is a catalyst, but things have to actually happen in real life. "
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" The selfie is revolutionary to me. It is, I think, the only point in history where masses of young girls and women have been able to control, create, and publish images of themselves. "
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" I think being collaborative is definitely more natural for people who are minorities in any sense - so people who aren't, like, white male artists - because we don't have the privilege to create art and work alone, usually. "
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" Success doesn't happen overnight. "
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" My mind is changing all the time. I can't live in a space that has a fixed aesthetic. I just need a blank slate when I come home. "
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Time
Space
" I'm very lucky that I'm not a photographer for hire - people hire me for me. I go into every commercial work with an art focus, with that lens; every brand I've worked for just lets me do whatever I want to do. I have full creative freedom. "
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" Oh my God. Brian De Palma. I love him. "
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" I get why feminism can be intimidating; sometimes it can seem like this exclusive club. "
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Like
Sometimes
" Everyone has a mirror face that's so different from their natural face. And I think it's interesting, seeing the way people want to be viewed when they're putting themselves together. "
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People
" My mother struggled immensely with mental illness, and so did I. She grew up bipolar, but it was never diagnosed nor recognized. It was shrugged off like a 'symptom' of being female - of her being weak. I also experienced this growing up: I felt that the great pain I experienced was a dramatisation. "
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She
Pain
" I didn't see spaces where female artists could exist and exhibit their work. So I created a platform for this - one that allowed our works to be seen, but to also weave a community of women that could lean on and work with one another. "
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Community
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" I was depressed at a very young age - mental illness runs in my family, especially on the female side. "
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Age
Family
Side
" People look the best when they feel the most comfortable, so I buy 10 of the same thing if I really like it. "
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Feel
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" I've always been fascinated by the desert. "
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Been
Fascinated
" When I was growing up, my parents would apologize when we didn't have enough money for something. I'd always tell them that it was O.K. and that I had learned to work hard because of them. "
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Parents
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Enough
" Curating, in the modern sense, is something I gravitate to. Taking different ideas from a bunch of different places and putting them into one place or space, a story that makes sense or a new idea. Everything is remixed and taken from other things to make something new. "
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Places
" I don't know what I would've done without it. I really struggled in school with reading and writing. Art was my refuge - my way of speaking, of dealing with my own issues and connecting with the world. "
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" It's so rare to see a woman lose control and also gain it back. Women are always told, 'Oh, be in control of your feelings,' and a woman is never allowed to express her anger without being demonised as being PMS-y. "
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" Art was - and is - my biggest outlet. I'd probably die if I didn't do it. "
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