The 100 Day Project, Day 22. I am not a "natural American" — and I bet you aren't either. Unless you can trace your ancestry to a Native American tribe on this continent before it was "discovered" by European sailors, you come from a line of immigrants who came to this land in search of a better life.

The 100 Day Project, Day 21. The frame is divided almost perfectly down the middle. On the left, a figure in military fatigues moving under cold green light. On the right, an American flag draped over a figure standing in darkness, a blade in hand. A wall between them. Two realities occupying the same space without ever touching.

The 100 Day Project, Day 20. The beauty and wellness industries have always known what they're selling: the idea that women should come in one flavor, one size. That there is a correct version of a woman, and you are probably not quite her yet — but for the right price, you could be.

The 100 Day Project, Day 19. We tend to think of clarity as the goal — sharp edges, full information, a moment captured. In photography, it is often someone else's clarity that you gaze upon. For me, I gravitate to images that I cannot quickly interpret. Artworks that force me to pause, to quiet my mind, to look, to find my own meaning.

The 100 Day Project, Day 18. To be a woman is to become fluent in the language of being watched. From childhood: how to hold your body, how to modulate your voice, how to make yourself legible to a world that has already decided what parts of you it wants to see. Mythology gave us the Muses as the ultimate expression of this arrangement — vessels of creative fire who existed to illuminate the work of others, rarely their own. Eternal sources, never subjects. Inspiring, never inspired.

The 100 Day Project, Day 17. A dancer mid-movement, lit up by late afternoon sun. Radiant. Confident. This photograph was made during The Invisible City, a five-week, site-specific experimental arts lab exploring public space in downtown Tucson. Co-directed by Lisa Bowden, the project was a collaboration between NEW ARTiculations Dance Theatre and Kore Press, a Tucson-based feminist press.

The 100 Day Project, Day 16. In life you meet people who fill your heart with joy. Bruce is that person for me. When I made this photo it was the first time I had seen him in over two years. He had just traveled 24+ hours straight from Ghana to get to my 50th birthday party in the Hudson Valley last summer. It may have been my birthday party, but it was Bruce's show — and it delighted me to no end to witness it.

The 100 Day Project, Day 15. "It's so small." This sentence is murmured in countless languages, every day, in front of the most famous painting in the world.

The 100 Day Project, Day 14. I love art. I don’t always like the artist. It’s likely an unpopular opinion, yet I really dislike the work of Jeff Koons. It’s mostly because he doesn't credit the fabricators whose hands actually make his work. To me, presenting an artwork as your own when others built it — and then not acknowledging them — is rude, egotistical, and very "dude."

The 100 Day Project, Day 13. There are works of art that you simply have to stand in front of to fully feel their power. The Laocoön is one of them. It’s hard to look at. Harder to look away.

The 100 Day Project, Day 12. Being an American is pretty fraught these days. The largest exodus of American citizens emigrating to Europe and other countries is reportedly happening at levels never seen in our nation's history. Surviving in America — economically, politically, spiritually — seems to get harder and harder as we continue down a path of demanding respect while refusing to extend it to others.

The 100 Day Project, Day 11. I have complicated feelings about this photograph — and about the original artwork that inspired it. There is something both stirring and uncomfortable in the way a disabled woman's body becomes the subject of another person's narrative about determination. I have a lot of questions for the original painting.

The 100 Day Project, Day 10. If joy were a color, I think it would be pink. I believe in the psychology of color, and pink simply makes me happy — the more vibrant the better, especially on the long gray winter days here in western New York.

The 100 Day Project, Day 9. The images that stay with me are those that hold tension between beauty and inquiry — images that hold something back and invite the viewer to pause long enough to seek the full story. My photograph, After Irina, does this for me.

The 100 Day Project, Day 8. As a lifelong student of visual culture, I have long examined the complicated relationship between art and propaganda. I made this photo in Paris while visiting The Louvre — a vast museum holding priceless objects that represent France's complex and conflicting history.

The 100 Day Project, Day 7. I love abstraction, and I love color. I made this photo on a girls' weekend trip to Kansas City with my long-time best friend Becki. That visit — and the images I made that day — set me on a renewed artistic journey and helped me reconnect with photography as a medium.

The 100 Day Project, Day 6. This is Clio, the muse of history. The movement in this photograph captures several layers of metaphor and irony. The iconic image of a woman cast in the role of muse — one dedicated to holding history within her — sits in direct tension with the way history, recorded largely by men, has so consistently erased women's stories.

The 100 Day Project, Day 5. I have loved this photograph for a very long time. The tension is what pulls me in every time. A feather — delicate, out of place, a symbol of flight and lightness — resting against the sharp edges of shattered glass and the grime of a gravel parking lot. These elements have no business being together, and yet here they are.

The 100 Day Project, Day 4. I often make photographs inside museums. They are some of my favorite places — and also some of the most complicated. Within their walls, tensions between history, gender, and culture push up against every viewer's experience, whether they're looking for it or not.

The 100 Day Project, Day 3. I got married "late" in life. It took me a long while to find someone I liked as much as I loved. I found that person in Mike Z.