Flat Curves

My work focuses on the female figure and how we choose to allow ourselves to be judged by standards of appearance. These standards are self- imposed in response to societal expectations and our own innate need to conform. When we let these pressures push us out of true we are shifted off our personal foundations. Our true form may or may not be consistent with the contemporary idealized image of a beautiful, successful woman. Clothing such as high heels and corsets reform the body into an unnatural shape, which may paradoxically be considered the ideal. This corset is simply a three-dimensional silhouette, which implies the building or creation of a woman and reinforces these stereotypes and gender roles.