In a step toward my ongoing effort to reclaim and control my image, I introduce my first conceptual artwork to ever come to market, an NFT entitled Buying Myself Back: A Model for Redistribution.

The digital terrain should be a place where women can share their likeness as they choose, controlling the usage of their image and receiving whatever potential capital attached. Instead, the internet has more frequently served as a space where others exploit and distribute images of women’s bodies without their consent and for another’s profit. Art has historically functioned similarly: works of unnamed muses sell for millions of dollars and build careers of traditionally male artists, while the subjects of these works earn nothing. As a model I have become all too familiar with this narrative, as chronicled in my 2020 essay for New York Magazine, Buying Myself Back.

Using the newly introduced medium of NFTs, I hope to symbolically set a precedent for women and ownership online, one that allows for women to have ongoing authority over their image and to receive rightful compensation for its usage and distribution.