Bra Experiments.

Last week I finally got the chance to visit the sewing lab and experiment with sewing into my tights/ polyamide elastane.

I cant wait to fill these and see how they hang / represent the concepts physically when put up / hung.

I began with my sculptural experiment based around the female breasts. I myself have struggled a lot with insecurities growing, much like others, and one of the biggest one for me was my breasts. I grew up being told the attributes in which women were meant to have, including what that meant for a women when they gained weight and had a overhanging belly.

When I began to gain weight my belly, thighs and arms grew bigger and saggier, but my breasts did not. I always felt my body wasn't even worth it in the plus size world. As I learnt through cultural influence of the western society that the attractive qualities of a larger women are their large breasts and bottoms. As I neither I felt ugly and unworthy even in the plus size world. It's a issue I have never spoke about before, and have not really took the time before to consider. However, I feel like it's important in the process of accepting and loving my body as it is to be open and understand my body. And in the process I hope I am able to express my feelings that every body is beautiful no matter the size of any feature. A body is a body. And breasts are breasts. Sexualised for a mans arousal, but in reality they are just sacks of fat. Useful in the bodies function as everything is, but still bags of fat attached to a women's body.