-What inspired you to start modeling?

I was first inspired by outspoken women on the internet who made me feel like I was finally home and in a place where I could contribute the true weirdness of my sexuality. Oh, and I loved the idea of getting paid to muse and be naked. Modeling has since taken me to so many places, creating with so many artists, and just fulfilled so many corners of my life that those initial reasons have expanded a thousand-fold.

-What do you enjoy most about being a model?

Being naked. Exploration. Musing artists. Musing people in general. When I get a fan mail telling me s/he has stared at a set of images for hours because it intrigued her/him or because s/he gained some new perspective about sexuality from it, my heart melts. It is the product generated from modeling that I enjoy most, not the act.

-I know you shoot fetish work; do you have a favorite fetish that you really like to shoot?

I love exploring fringe fetishes, those kinks that are stemmed from normal, everyday, common themes, but have been taken to a pedestal and worshiped. Feet, shoes, mouths, tongues, vacuums, aprons, spit, peeing, nude in public, nature, hair, shaving, kissing, touch, anticipation, and burping are some of the themes I try to explore as an artist in Fedora’s Box. I like to film every day things in a strange way, with weird lighting, intriguing classical music, and innocence. That innocence in exploration is something I relish in injecting into the media I create.

-Besides being a model you are also a photographer, where have your photos been published?

I am a regular in Skin Art Magazine and its subsidiary magazines as well as The Seattle Sinner. I have had features all over the web from erotic sites like DeviantNation.com and BrokenDollz.com to web zines like MidsMagazine and AceMagazine. I also do a good bit of video production and acting. G4′s Attack of the Show featured Titty Wars for a montage on boob slapping this year and my most recent full-length feature film with Old School Sinema, The Spook Show, where I play the bartender, just released.

-Do you think that being both a model and photographer gives you insight that other models/photographers might not have?

Hell yes. I am adding skill after skill into my toolbox. I feel like I can reach in at any time and exemplify any creative project. I believe that being a business owner has helped me be able to see an entire project and accept my role in it. Sometimes when people are awesome at one thing, they forget that everyone else has talent in other areas that are totally necessary, too. Back to answering your question, the insight I glean from being a model and a photographer is vast. As a model, I understand the lighting concepts a photographer is using in our scene without having to ask. I have new ways to bond and gain respect from my photographers because I can relate to them through being a photographer. I can talk shop a little more than a typical model. As a photographer, I am able to make a model feel more comfortable because I understand what it is like to be the poser, and the various ways in which a photographer may fail/succeed in relaying an idea. I can describe a pose or a concept from the model’s perspective, as a photographer, thus increasing my bond with my models. Being a woman helps a lot, too. For some reason, women like to relate to one another; it inspires them.

-Why did you decide to start up your own website, fedorasbox.com?

Everyone needs a passionate personal project that makes them feel like they are spending their time in the best way they can imagine. My mind automatically thinks about women, video, photography, art, nakedness, literature, and music, so incorporating things I really love and require, like business, marketing, generating revenue, merchandising, and nerdy things like these makes for a really fulfilling project on all fronts. It seemed the cosmos was telling me that I just had to create Fedora’s Box.

-I love your “geek” tattoo, what do you think is the geekiest thing about you?

I am a math geek. I love doing equations, whether it is breaking my entire world down into numbers as an explanation to all things or balancing my checkbook, I am stoked. I have set up a budget that runs itself, helped several friends out of debt and saving hundreds per month, and I do my taxes in less than an hour because of mathematical organization.

-What advice would you give to girls looking to get into modeling?

I don’t have any. In my opinion, 95-99% of prospective models will never do much as a model. There are reasons for this such as they do not have a memorable look, don’t take care of their bodies, are starving for attention and/or lack personal drive. The attention whores jack themselves off in front of a camera (metaphorically masturbating their egos) until they get so much rejection that they give up and quit. Either you have it and you know it, or you don’t. Do work. I have no advice for this.