“Salt, And Bitter Flood” works to critique how objectification exists as an unavoidable consequence of the photographic medium and aims to start conversations around a historical view of Woman. The work references feminine iconography, namely “The Birth of Venus” by Sandro Botticelli by utilizing the traditional, feminine symbol of the sea in association with the goddess Venus. These photo-objects were created from polaroid emulsion lifts and shells collected from Brighton’s coast. This process first diminishes, then creates object of subject — mimetic of feminine objectification throughout art history and suppression of broader ideas of ‘Woman’. The shells are then rephotographed, questioning the significance of an object in relation to photography’s contrasting 2-and-3-dimensionality, and what is inferred when a miniature object is brought to, or surpasses, a life-size. By taking these miniature sculptures and enlarging them to a monumental scale, I want to discover what the work can say about the way women receive expectations, and if an individual can reject them.