These portraits—ethereal, strong, cosmic, and cerebral—do powerful work in dismantling the historical dominance of the male gaze, offering instead a space where the female gaze reclaims the narrative of identity, autonomy, and mental well-being.

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Throughout history, the portrayal of women in art has often been shaped not by how women see themselves, but by how men have chosen to look at them. This phenomenon—what theorist Laura Mulvey famously coined as the male gaze—positions women as objects to be observed, idealized, or consumed, rather than as full subjects of their own narratives. Even in ancient depictions, like those of Greek goddesses, we see divine femininity filtered through this lens: Athena is powerful but unapproachable, Aphrodite is sensual but passive, Hera is regal but often reactionary. These images, though seemingly celebratory, often reinforce narrow roles—beauty, purity, seduction, jealousy—within a male-dominated mythology.

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The Greek goddesses were immortal, complex figures, yet the artistic traditions that portrayed them often reduced them to archetypes meant to satisfy a cultural fantasy. Their bodies are sculpted to perfection, frozen in marble or paint, captured not for who they are but how they appear. The divine becomes decorative. In reimagining portraiture through a modern, feminine, and even technological lens, we can begin to reclaim that visual power—to shift from being looked at to being seen through. My work challenges that tradition by asking: what happens when the subject becomes the seer, when AI helps amplify rather than erase our complexity, and when the female gaze rewrites the myth?