I worked in a porn store for a while to make ends meet. It was such an odd job, you expect it to be really creepy but you get used to it fast. At the porn store I was introduced to a lot of fetishes that I was completely unaware of. I was never able to wrap my head around the sexual appeal of some of them and became overly interested in how people were turned on by these things.

A coworker of mine, Ariana,  was pretty well versed in these things and we would have endless conversations. For my birthday she bought me this head-harness-riding-bit-thing with the intention of using it for photos since she would always make fun and call me a prude. I started incorporating these things into my photos. A month or so after I began this series of photos I was hospitalized for a handful of reasons and this gave me a ton of time to literally sit and think. It was good in a way, I learned a lot about myself and where I was heading and what I wanted to do with my photography.