Pain, 1/2" X 1/2" X 4", Lipstick, sewing needles, thread, and safety pin
“We tend to think of torture in the name of beauty as an
aberration of the ancients, but there are modern scourging parlors. People have
always mutilated their skins, often enduring pain to be beautiful, as if the
pain chastened the beauty, gave it the special veneer of sacrifice.”
-Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses, pg.
103
Artist Statement:
As a woman, I found it interesting that women will put themselves
in any type of pain all in the name of beauty, just to keep up with society’s beauty
standards. My piece visually shows the pain that women inflict on themselves in
order to maintain this societal ideal. I wanted to impale the lipstick with sewing
needles as a way to show that beauty is pain.
Hair, 10 1/2 " X 8 1/2", Copy paper and hair
“But despite efforts to remove hair from our bodies, quite a
lot remains on the arms, faces, and heads of women, and the chest, arms, and
legs of men, to do what it was intended to do.”
-Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses, pg.
87
Artist Statement:
No matter how many times a person can shave in order to keep
up with the acceptable beauty trends, hair will always grow back. A human is supposed
to have hair, as nature created us to have. In my piece, I wanted to exaggerate
the amount of hair people have by making an outline of people covered in hair,
as a way to confirm that people are naturally supposed to be hairy.
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