Experimentation-flour balloons.

I had some large balloons left over from an experiment I was working on in Nicosia, Cyprus and thought it would be a good time to find them and see how a different object would respond to having lots of flour put into it. It turns out the balloons did not expand in the way I expected, in fact they hardly expanded.

Though the experiment did not turn out how I would have liked them to have, I found a new experiment. When I lifted the balloons filled with flour they instantly reminded me of breasts. Personally I am most conscious about my breasts and stomach. As many larger women have, I have a overhanging stomach which I am still learning to accept and love. However, unlike many larger women I have relatively small breasts. This has always been something at the back of my mind and is a big thing for me to accept. Still to this day I can not say I am 100% confident with all of my body, however that is okay. Self love takes time and what I have found with interlocking this journey of self love and my art practice together is that my art both expresses my pain but educates me. It almost creates a release for me to let go off my past worries and pains from hurtful words and look forward to a time when my body and talking about fat on fat bodies is accepted. With every sculpture I learn something new about myself, my body but also about how the fat bodies acceptance and feelings towards fat are changing.

This experiment represents much more then large boobs. It represents womanhood, freedom, and the acceptance of your bodies for all they are.

(UPDATE: All the flour which is used in my projects was purchased previously to Covid-19 and I have done all I can to recycle all the flour I am using.)

[Large balloons, flour.]

30cm x 35cm x 15cm