#7 Pixie in Berkeley

I’ve always liked being seen. And I’ve always liked being naked.
I suppose it was inevitable that at some point, these two ideas would come together and start talking… and they did. I was 22 I think, when I decided to answer a want ad for topless dancers. I was hired on the spot and immersed myself in it with no shame or reservations… I loved it. From that seedy little tittie-bar in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, to the polished high-end strip club I ended up dancing at, I reveled in it. Being on stage naked was always electric for me, and at the same time completely grounding. There was an amazing sense of the spiritual, of erotic dance as Worship and as Art… It was exciting and exhausting and fun!

I love inviting the sensual and the sexual into the everyday mundane… and sometimes vice versa. And to me, a nude body is all of those things at once: sensual, sexual and yet so very mundane… the basic essence of each of us, as we are… no frills attached. My body has changed after 20 years… but my desire to share it and show it off hasn’t; I guess I’m still the exhibitionist I used to be. It took getting used to at first; the shifts in weight, the change in skin texture, the signs of bearing two amazing children… and yet, that’s all part of who I am and what my life has been! So I learned to carry it proudly and with joy. I still dance naked sometimes at private events, I model corsets, perform at alternative venues with my band… I go to private clubs where the dress code requires fetish wear or nudity… it’s all about seeing and being seen; sharing and being shared; experiencing the Body, the Self, as Art.I love the concept of “100 Nude Windows”! I would love to see 200… 500… 1000… as many as there are people to fill the frames! If there is one thing I want to share with people, with everyone I meet or can reach, it’s to take Joy in yourself… to Love Who and What you are, to bring it out into the open and not hide it… to be naked in a window, literally or figuratively… and to revel in it!