WOMEN

Here I attempted to treat the body as just another still life element, equal to the inanimate household objects that populate a women's life. The bodies, past perfection and now rippled and loose, interact with the vases, those ideal and unchanging vessels fashioned after the female form. Women often feel as though they are meant to disappear after a certain age. Their bodies should not be revealed. In defiance, I chose to look only at the body and not to be distracted by the face. As a bonus, hiding the face made the prospect of posing for this project more palatable.

“Opton begins in nearby territory, venturing more deeply into the difficult precincts of feminism, ageism, metaphor and art. Her photographs confidently add what might be called a new wrinkle to the corpus of female nudes that parades through the history of photography.”
- Vickie Goldberg, Women Vases and the Years