Body

2018 Installation

24” x 96” x 24” Pedestal

Body image has always been a struggle between myself, my family and friends. I am thinner than most of my family so growing up I was always told to eat more, I was too skinny and the societal stigma of how a woman is considered attractive took a mental toll on my body image. I never truly had an issue with my body, being comfortable with myself was always important, even though everyone else in my life was struggling with this concept. I didn’t care the way the people in my life looked, their body is theirs and they should be proud of that. Throughout human history the human body has taken on different narratives of what beauty looks like. Body is a comment on that image. How once in our history and throughout different cultures a skinny model's body isn’t always the most attractive. As well as the influx of “body positivity” in modern thinking. My work needed to be relatable to my audience to create a meaningful connection with my environments as a whole, to respond to each other as well as the space presented. I realized that I needed people to not only understand me, but each other no matter who the other person was.

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