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Creation Date
Spring 2026
Description
This photograph is from a work-in-progress iteration of my photo exhibition titled, "A Girl and Her Long Legs, A Woman Alone, Looking for A Room of Her Own". The photos are of and taken by me, and they represent my peculiar identity stories. Autobiographical and experimental, each photo features my hair, in various styles and stages of growth, and as a living metaphor and abiding witness to my identity stories. Reflecting only one-version-in-a-universe of the identities of being Woman and Writer, the exhibition title alludes to three woman writers and their work of art in word and thought: 'A Girl and Her Long Legs' references the long-and-thin-legged she-ro schoolgirl character in "The Girl Who Can", the titular story in a collection by Ama Ata Aidoo; "A Woman Alone..." is a book of collected autobiographical writings by Bessie Head; and 'A Room of Her Own' gestures to Virginia Woolf’s extended essay, "A Room of One’s Own".