These prints, consisting of 25 photos of myself in bathing suits as a child, speaks to the shift I experienced from when I was comfortable in a bikini and when I was told I shouldn't be. As a fat person, bathing suits hold heavy connotations. We often hear people speak about preparing themselves for swimsuit season, restricting calories, and heading to the gym to prepare their "bikini bodies" as if their current bodies won't be acceptable to be seen with such little coverage. A bathing suit means exposing my body to ridicule, giving away the comfort of clothing, and sharing the secret of my fatness. In a bathing suit, I cannot hide. But there was a time before I thought about how my rolls spilled over my bikini bottoms, and I didn't obsess about how I looked in a bathing suit. I just wore one. 

Printed using CMYK photo-intaglio, the impression of the 100 plates making each image is physically pushed into the paper, relating to the physical and psychological impression fatphobia had on me at such a young age. Bikinis were no longer just bikinis - they were a magnification of my fatness, of the separation between the other kids at the pool and me.