Experimentation: Foam interacting with my body.

As you may or may not know by viewing my other pieces of artwork, foam is a vital material within my practice. I use recycled irregular offcuts from foam companies to express my feelings towards how the fat community is treated, particularly from a western females perspective.

Using my body as a medium of my artwork is new to me and in some ways I found the work daunting to make, but also view. After taking some time to reflect on my feelings, I have came to the conclusion that it was because I personally had never really took the time to look at my body. Looking at myself in the mirror had always been such a terrible experience growing up, so I almost taught myself to never look, or at least properly look at myself. I have realised through the experience of using my body as a medium in my art that my body is art in itself, beauty in its purest. I find many happy accidents within my work and this one was an experience which I will never forget. Ever since that moment I can look at my body and see a worthy body, instead of just lumps, bumps and body fat.

My original thoughts for the image was to emphasise my body weight but also manipulate how my body looks, to express that no body is going to be perfect and all bodies are going to have lumps and bumps in their own unique places. That is not only okay, it is beauty in its truest form, natural.