from under the depth of the sea, emerges a new persona of the former beauty queen.

she strives for freedom - that’s her fate she believes. but will she ever be free? are you really ever free?

our fate is freedom. it is our inevitable destiny we’re constantly searching for. what we fail to realize is the downfall of such a flawed concept.

one of the most celebrated Argentinian writers Jorge Luis Borges epitomizes the unattainability of freedom in his comments regarding José Hernández’s fictional character Martín Fierro in his search for freedom as an outlaw from both of his cultures he has sided with. Borges finalizes Fierro’s journey in the version of a short story titled The End. There, Fierro is already an old man who is still faced with the memories of his unforgiving and vengeful past. He comes to terms with his violent acts and his partaking in the army against the marginalized Indian nations, who he know lives among. His fate leads him to one final duel with the man whose brother he killed in his previous life. And that’s where the epic ends.

the moral concludes in freedom being subject to moral relativism. freedom is part of a scopic regime and there is no neutral actuality to it. once you free yourself from one thing, you’re the subject of scrutiny to another. you’re morals are tied to you’re original state and they will always hold you accountable, no matter how far you escape.

this photographic series depicts freedom’s mortality. this idea of a “beauty queen” escaping from her past life into the vast unknown, dreaming of an unreachable freedom. is she just willing to forget her corrupted past? she still holds the values and qualities of those who praised her. she was praised for the wrong reasons and coming to terms with that was a defining moment for her.