For the first sixteen years of my life, I was taught to stay away from everything unholy, all the deepest, darkest profanities of the world, the "other side." Sitra Achra is the term used to describe all the things on the "other side" of holiness, like queers, and women who don't fit traditional definitions of femininity, women who go to college and want to have babies outside of marriage and without husbands. Sitra Achra is me. Now, as I sit on the other side, I try and find a way to see the two sides of myself together, to create a conversation between tradition and heresy.

This conversation takes the form of self-portraits, photographs of myself intended to represent individuals who have historically been excluded from representation - Jews, queers, women.

Sitra Achra shows day-to-day life, mundane spaces, doubled images, good and bad. I want to show people the way they see themselves, nuanced, complicated. I look to history with regards to clothing, situation and placement. I also think about ideas that are important to me and the larger community now: How am I - as a queer Jewish woman, going to create a family? How have Jewish women historically created families? How might this have been discussed in the traditional texts? How can I harness modern technology to address ancient inequalities?