Abstract
This thesis work focuses on the female body, sex roles, and relationships uprooted by the social contagion of confusion through self-commodification dictated by social media platforms. Work in fine art, printmaking, and digital painting culminates in portraits, pattern projections, and wallpaper obstructions to abstract, cover, and encode contradictions with paradoxes of morality and truth. Planographic wrapping of visual terrains represents layers of boundaries incurred by women in sexualized urban culture. I frame my creative work through Ace Lehner’s theoretical dialog regarding self-portraiture, bell hooks’ Feminist theory, and Syrus Marcus Ware’s activist wallpapers. Through personal reflection and autoethnographic investigation, my work creates a space where traditional wallpaper, urban graffiti, and the study of sexual behavior are married with contemporary advertising methods.