Where She stood

This series of images maps places around the city of Toronto that I have been cat-called and sexually harassed. These images show where these acts took place and also how I now see these places. At the age of twenty I am having a hard time understanding how harassment is an act that I have incredibly little power over yet it still affects my life so deeply. Men feel they have the right to say what they please when they see me without the slightest consideration of how threatened, upset and angry it will make me feel. After these encounters occurred several times, I started to realize that these spaces took on new meanings for me and that I look at them in a completely different way than would the average Torontonian. When I walk by these spaces, after the harassment has passed, I no longer see reality; I see the words that were thrown upon me.  The viewer may notice that there are hardly any people in the images. This was done on purpose in order to recreate the feelings of loneliness and despair that I feel when being cat-called. This series has been an outlet for my frustrations but also to have some justice for myself. Mapping where the harassment took place is a way of holding these men accountable and documenting their actions.

These Images were created as the book, Where She Stood.

Created: November 2015