Women in media

Artist pages marking period 2

Book Sculpture

The Effect Of Peer Editing

     When people answered my questionnaire, I received confused thoughts about what my message truly was. People could see that the girl was looking up to the women but some did not realize that the pictures on the left were the before pictures and the people on the right were the photoshopped version of the women on the left. Someone suggested putting a screen or something over the before pictures to make them darker. I considered making the before pictures be in black and white. I decided to keep my mark-making the same because no one said anything was bad about it. The results i received led me to keep the girl as a pencil drawing because she is in the dark because she is not sure what to compare herself to and what she ends up comparing herself to makes her feel worthless. She feels ashamed that she does not look like the beautiful, photoshopped women. I tend to pick bright, bold color schemes for all of my artwork. My work is rarely minimal; I always end up adding in extra details or patterns.

     I want people to understand the general meaning behind my work but i also hope people interpret it further in their own way. I do not normally depict historical scenes or artwork of that nature so i do not expect that my audience will relate to my art entirely in the same way. For this piece, I hope that people see that she is looking up to supermodels and celebrities after they are photoshopped. I assume most women and men can relate to the feeling of comparing themselves to others and never being quite happy with their appearance. All people cope with this feeling in their own way: Some join a gym, some get Botox, some become anorexic or bulimic; most women use makeup to cover up their "flaws" because it is the easiest way to make yourself feel better about yourself. It is very hard to see, but we are actually harming ourselves way more than helping. We are never happy with what we see in the mirror. This piece of artwork displays one of the biggest problems we face today: how we view ourselves and others. The judgement will never stop but our awareness can.