In Leland's own words: «With these images my intention is to capture both the male and the alter ego
female side of these subjects in one image in order to explore the cross over between males and females and to break down the physical barriers that separate them.
Not exact matches
I encouraged one
of our resident psychiatrists, William G. Reiner (already interested in the
subject because prior to his psychiatric training he had been a pediatric urologist and had witnessed the problem from the other
side), to set about doing a systematic follow - up
of these children — particularly the males transformed into
females in infancy — so as to determine just how sexually integrated they became as adults.
Results indicated 90 %
of patients experienced improvement in joint health, without
side effects.5 Similarly, a pilot - study recruited
female subjects with joint pain to take Hydrolyzed Collagen Type II for 42 days.
Surrounded by his drying canvases, he would ask a young nude
female model to remain with him in the studio, not necessarily to paint her in a particular pose as Matisse or Bonnard might have done (he was wary
of the anecdotal
side of a pose and tried to avoid it as much as he could), but for a sheer physical presence next to him while he was painting, and for its influence on his perception
of his
subject.
The work is a collaborative dialogue that explores the complexity
of female maker to
female subject,
of womanhood on each
side of the camera and
of spoken and unspoken conversation.