Brooklyn artist Sara Erenthal grew up in Neturei Karta, the extreme über-haredi anti-Zionist sect, but left it and Orthodoxy as a teenager. She was 17 when she tried on jeans for the first time. "I remember looking in the mirror thinking, 'Oh my God, my butt!' " she recalls. "I'd never really seen myself in pants."
Above and above right: The Father, The Mother, The Girl, The Boy by Sara Erenthal
From the Village Voice:
Sara Erenthal was 17 when she tried on jeans for the first time. "I remember looking in the mirror thinking, 'Oh my God, my butt!' " she recalls. "I'd never really seen myself in pants."
Tonight, the now 34-year-old artist is wearing a pair of gray skinny jeans and a striped top, her black bra peeking through the flaps of her open-back shirt. Her hair is chin-length, roots growing in black, the rest bleached; black polish is chipping off her nails; and gold rings adorn her septum and left nostril.…
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