Image-driven societal expectations drive the relentless quest for physical beauty often to the detriment of other personality traits. The figure is lacking the details that bestow individuality and personality, yet even in this loss, it is still driven to put its best image forward, even if it is a departure from reality. The figure in the print tries to emulate reality by being life-sized, while concealing the insubstantiality of its true, paper-thin form. The etherial textures of the form portray the feeling of fading away and losing oneself, while one clear hand desperately tries to hang on to reality, giving us hope that not all is lost.
Sunlight exposed Cyanotype using the artist’s body to contact print.
