Sections Of She

An ongoing project about finding art in myself. Safety in my own skin. Using my body to abstract & obscure my portrait. Creating worlds and aesthetics that empower myself and other people by finding beauty in my own body. Growing up, I matured long before other girls, and it almost felt that womanhood had hit me too soon. I wasn't ready, and my body had ripened too soon. Living under the pressure of girly stereotypes and standards that were unachievable was and is a challenge that has followed me into my life as a woman. It is a constant struggle to accept who we are. I still feel that I'm not looking or acting as I should be. The same way I felt growing up. I was not hairless, harmless or helplessly pretty in pink. I never will be. Everything aside, we are primates. We are aggressive and hungry. Hairy and bumpy. But society has sadly shown to ignore these facts of human nature and photoshop them. I aim to celebrate and saturate the contorted, the garish, and the uncensored. The folds and dimples. The holes and fat roles. I am to satirise the selfie in distorting my human form. A form we so harmful try to sand down with face thinning editors and crop tools. Here is a taste of my sectionsofshe self-portraiture below: