Being Beautiful
Before I get started I would just like to quote an excerpt I wrote last semester based on my work and ideas.
?The core theme of my work seems to be the inability to understand our modern obsession with beauty. Being beautiful is something more strived for today than say getting a good job or having a family. People are now spending significant amounts of money to stay beautiful; the Hollywood attitude of our modern day celebrity culture runs rampant among the everyday person. I try to be neutral in my discovery of this supposed beauty, tackling gendered stereotypes whilst surprising the people who know me best.?
The very crux of my work seems to lie within my inability to understand how people can waste so much time on how they look. I use the word ?waste? rather loosely mostly because our very perception of outward being is crucial to everyone, myself included. So with this in mind I am trying to expose myself to this other way of thinking in an attempt to understand the way in which a lot of people think.
Personally, I have always been the kind of person who believes that if it takes more than ten minutes to do then it’s not worth losing light on. The daily rituals people undertake to remain beautiful are beyond befuddling; from layering skin cr
