https://library.missouri.edu/exhibits/files/original/a364e6186e310dac626135969756d37b.JPG 6876481522db39f3e57608161c0fbd40 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kate Moores: The Dressing Room Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. Color photograph of a girl wearing pearls with smoke obscuring her face. https://library.missouri.edu/exhibits/files/original/cf6599caa2356a928ed3e33064e9273c.png 4c02371b788f3e36c0dc0d48fc69cb84 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kate Moores: The Dressing Room Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. Color photograph of a girl laying on a fur with sun on her face. https://library.missouri.edu/exhibits/files/original/cf7007fb8e49bc30d3811da5ebb30b03.png 7ec5e6798698a9ef541285e806be4e7b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kate Moores: The Dressing Room Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. Color photograph of a girl with an orchid disguising her face. https://library.missouri.edu/exhibits/files/original/09209c2f08be4ea10c0f14b01bb553ee.png a610cacf1ba62f2f5958f415d2bbbdc3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kate Moores: The Dressing Room Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. Color photograph of a face sheet mask lying in grass. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Dressing Room Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Moores, Kate Abstract A summary of the resource. “The Dressing Room” considers a place of transition where one can be undone, stripped down, and reborn as someone else. It suggests performance, where one’s identity can be modified to fit a character. Beauty has never been more accessible through surgical procedures, GLP-1s, shapewear, extensions, -- so my work is informed by the wider cultural phenomenon of personal optimization. These actions assume that the person underneath the alterations is dull. Rather than approaching that conversation directly, this work offers quiet meditation on the practice through obscuring subjects with less obvious tools. These works explore beauty in unfinished states and what lies between the natural and superficial. Through partially masking the subjects, the focus becomes the individual hidden by artifice. The obscura feels both feminine and fleeting, either elevating the subject or disguising them. Their presence may be central, but the intrigue lies within the background forms. These photos capture a state of in-between, abstract moments of beauty, making them altogether less ‘pretty’. My photographs describe a journey to perfection, updated for the age of technology, but a journey as old as narrative itself. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2026