“She’s a butterface” is a saying meant to convey that everything about a woman is good… but her face. Photographer Anna Friemoth’s literal lens reveals the phrase as the slur that it is.

That’s the thought experiment behind Friemoth’s new collection, “Words for Women.” As Slate highlights, Friemoth takes common phrases associated with women and reimagines them as colorful, literal portraits. “Trophy wife” becomes a stoic woman covered in shiny silver; “wallflower” becomes a woman in a red dress mounted on a wall; “arm candy” becomes a woman covered up in a polka-dot wrapper.

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