Since looking at other artist I have been thinking how I can really recreate my own room and make it much more personal. For me this would be letting the audience see what I really think and feel. For me I went through a stage in my life in my mid-teens maybe when I was 17 I started to print images of people I wanted to look like and I would print these images out and stick them round my mirror when I was getting ready. Also what I would do is get images of me and draw on it what I wanted to change in myself. I think this was a difficult time for me as I just started college and I was meeting all these new people and I then really started to notice more certain fashions and trends in looks and high street fashion. I become very obsessed with how I wanted to look and I lost a lot of weight over this period of time I was in a size 6 jeans. Which I have never been and I doubt I will ever be again.
So for my degree show I want to recreate my own dressing room which is my own personal space which is somewhere I really only go into my boyfriend and family are normal shut out in the morning until I feel it is safe for me to come out.( I am not that bad any more, but I was for a long time.) so to show this side of what of how I use to think and how much I wanted to change my own appearance so by showing this I am going to print a range of images like I use to have around my room and dressing table mirror. The images will be ones of my face, ones of makeup and face space/perfect face mask or surgery before and afters.
I also think that this is something I want to share with the audience as I think this is a scary thing they need to see, seeing images like this lead young women and teens into a slippery slope of self-destruction. I have known some girls that have become very obsessed with certain images off the internet of skinny woman or perfect faces, however what they don’t realise is that most of these images from the internet and magazines are edited and Photoshop have been used to make these woman look very skinny or have perfect skin, as editors would cut out the pieces they don’t think are ‘perfect’ and this is very hard for a young woman to think about they just see this ideal image and they inspire to look like them, in much like I use to.
