This intimate re-enactment series reflects not the reality of the artist’s past as a dancer in the early 1980s, but how she felt she was perceived during that time. Through stylized costume, constructed setting, and the body of a model, the artist reconstructs a version of that experience shaped by external gaze and internal reckoning. Tinsel, barroom posters, and nostalgic hues are used deliberately—not as faithful recreations, but as expressive tools to explore memory, myth, and misrecognition.

The absence of an audience is no accident. The camera becomes the sole spectator, and the dancer—steady, bold, and composed—returns its gaze not to entertain, but to confront. The sepia tones lend a dreamy veneer that both romanticizes and distorts, echoing the tension between who she was and how she was seen.

This is not documentation—it is a reckoning. Through the surrogate figure and symbolic staging, the artist examines how women in nightlife were historically framed, and how she, in turn, internalized and resisted those narratives. It is a performance of perception—crafted to reclaim authorship and turn a projected image into an act of self-definition.