This artist book is comprised of haikus written by women of various ages musing on appearance (skin) versus how internal perspectives (deep), often expressing how being the subject of “the male gaze” interacts with female self perception. Each 4" x 4" page features two haikus from the same woman: the exterior verse reads from one orientation and their interior haiku reads from the opposite so the book can be read one way or the other for different perspectives.

Pages are sutured together, emulating the stitching together of the wounds or the joining of the community of women, a community often divided by consequences of “the male gaze” and subsequent effects on self perception and female competition.

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