Spring Porn: The Devil in Miss Jones

Build up your hedges they told her. Your pleasure should never be public. And she was a child, so she listened to what the adults around her advised. But as she grew, she began to question why? Shouldn’t a feeling this pure be something to celebrate? Shouldn’t this be something to share? So, she started to let her pleasure peek over the edges of her hedges. She started to let others in and it actually allowed that pleasure to multiply. However, she could never quite shake the feeling that someone was watching her. And if they were, she couldn’t help but wonder what they were saying. “Have you heard about the Jones girl? The devil laid ground in that one.”

The Devil in Miss Jones is a photo from Chase Baxter’s series, Spring Porn. The collection captures florals in an effort to explore the feeling of pleasure, as well as some of the often-accompanying emotions such as joy, euphoria, nostalgia, and even sometimes shame.

Taken on 120mm film.

Los Angeles, CA, USA. 2021.