A tremendous amount of importance is
placed on beauty in modern society, which often overshadows real women
and important issues. A woman’s worth is based on her face and body, not her
mind or abilities. Although this emphasis on beauty varies from culture
to culture and has existed for ages, our unhealthy obsession with it has become
an epidemic because of modern media, which still portrays women either as sexual objects or housewives.
My work examines these issues by exploring the roles of women in media and
culture. Images of “beauty” we see in the media give women conflicting feelings;
feelings of admiration towards the perfect bodies and flawless faces they see
and insecurities about their own bodies and faces. My work has this
contradiction in it as well; I want the work to be visually pleasing, but give
the viewer a feeling that something is unacceptable. I want to
exaggerate the inaccurate way that women are portrayed in our media to point out
their negative implications.