I thought it would only be fair to start by talking about where my work has stemmed from and my life story with my body and how and why I decided to bring it into my art.
My whole subject matter has evolved from body positivity, image, and insecurities so that’s where the interest has led from. As well as it is a personal journey of myself going through the pressures of beauty standards and the perfect body in the past and currently. As well as seeing others go through it and wonder what can happen to change that. How can we change our views on our bodies? What makes us view our bodies in that way? Why so critical? It seems we just want to see the same, it's almost like we don’t want to see anything different.
I understand that I have an interest in the female form based on a personal journey and experiences that I have been struggling with for years, probably since I was younger. I don't think I ever acknowledged it properly, or I guess I never thought to face it or think about how I shouldn't be feeling like I do about my own body. I never confronted the issue, just left it alone to feast on any self-love I had for myself. That lasted until lockdown when I had so much time to myself to acknowledge the feelings that I've been living with and accepting. In that period there was more time to self-reflect and nothing to distract me from it. Ever since 2020 I've been questioning and intrigued by the idea of “why start self-judging” Why did I? How can I make it stop? Why do I have this feeling? It comes any day or night. Why don't I have control? This then got me interested in the idea of different insecurities within the body and the sensations I get from it and how they are triggered. The experience of the insecurities and how I can represent them in my artwork, either a powerful message of celebration or fuck you to society.
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