"My obsession with mixing images of the Virgin with images of the female nude started in Cyprus in 2018. I was drawn to the shelves in tourist shops, where little mass-produced idols of the Madonna were being sold right next to ones of Aphrodite. I was interested in what this said about what we expect of women. We want them to be beautiful, but we also want them to be mothers and virgins, and we don't want anyone else to touch them. If they do, then they aren't worth anything. I guess that's the difference between pornography and the nude in art."
