The Beauty Myth
This project was based on the Beauty Myth novel by Naomi Wolf. I created three final images based on the chapters of the book, that being Culture, Religion, Sex, Work, Hunger and Violence. In order I represented three chapters into final images, work, hunger and culture. I decided to use animals to represent the myths as a premise of going back to our roots and that they are so similar to us in many ways.
To represent work, the mother horse is wearing a harness and also feeding its foal. This is to represent modern women's ability to manage work whilst also taking care of children.
Based on the chapter entitled Culture, I decided to represent vultures in the term of 'culture vultures' to symbolise our societal obsession of self image, magazines and comparing ourselves to other women.
This image is based on Hunger, I wanted to depict the hunger of the wolf and link this term back to another societal issue of resisting our basic natural urge to eat when food is available.