His Majesty

Her Majesty. 2017
25x51.

Photographic print on canvas "hard cotton twill", Photoshop, acrylic, clay, antique mirror from the Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth Hotel , Montreal .

The relative freedom of famous people...

I wonder if young Elizabeth dreamed of her future title, if she had smaller or larger dreams? I wonder if the weight of her responsibilities and her public image was worth her one life, and if she could have relinquished her status had she so chosen?

• For the UVA project, I wanted to create a fantasy world around the Queen. I imagined Elizabeth in a Hawaiian Garden of Eden, reveling in the taste of freedom. I chose two mirrors with gold trim as artifacts, and I created two photographic works based on my place of residence at the time, Kauai, Hawaii.

• It was amidst the invigorating Haena jungle in northern Kauai, a place renowned as one of the most majestic and paradisiacal in the world, that the idea took root. With the help of my two partners, Marc (my husband) and Christine (my muse), I crafted and conceived my two future works, “Queen's Fantasy” and “How Could She Have Believed It?”