Fourth-year Michigan State studio art student Evan Yalowitz looks at her painting Final Destination at the Scene Metrospace gallery on April 13, 2025. “I knew I wanted a nude female figure to be in the painting, and I needed a reference photo. So one night, I was here in my studio at midnight, completely alone… I locked both doors, set up my camera, and took the photos myself,” Yalowitz said. “I knew it had to be me. If I’m going to put so much of my emotion into this, it can’t be another figure — it has to be me.”