Peeness Envy was created by native New Yorker and artist, Ellen Jong. She is known for her distinguished female voice, notably from her premiere photographic monograph, Pees On Earth, 2006 (powerHouse Books/Miss Rosen Edition). She describes the eight-year span of self-portraits while urinating in public, in private, as an intimate self-discovery unfolding while reclaiming her body and place on Earth. The serial mark-making and "the existential pee puddle" inform her negotiations with desire and transformation that continue in her studio practice. She created GIRL cap in 2014 as a love letter to her younger self and an effort of solidarity, recognition and representation.
