Bartosz Koswoski

I found this artist who produces a range of illustrations that represent the social pressures that social media and media in general has on body image and your mental state. The illustrations include such feelings such as negative influences on weight and diet, and paranoia in relationships that the media causes.

Body Image Control

When thinking about more metaphorical ways of representing the media controlling our aspect of self, I thought of the idea of puppets. The stringed puppets metaphorically could represent that we're strung up to be controlled to think a certain way. I think this would be a nice idea to work with when producing an idea for the project.

Fashion Animations

Episode 16 “The Camellia” - Inside Ch*nel from Cyrille Smaha on Vimeo.

7 Deadly Sins

A piece I found on the internet about the 7 Deadly Sins

Culturally there used to be the belief that there are 7 Deadly Sins, things that could consume you into being a bad person. I think that this sort of theme also links into what I've been looking at regarding people constantly wanting to change their outlook of themselves. The 7 Deadly sins include:

• Gluttony
• Vanity 
• Envy
• Sloth
• Wrath 
• Greed
• Lust

In particular I feel that the sins that most apply to the themes I've been looking at is the aspects of Greed, Vanity, Envy and Gluttony. The greed of wanting something we don't have and constantly wanting new products, the vanity of constantly trying to look the best we can and impress others, the envy of wanting a body image that we don't have and the gluttony of trying to change our diet to look a certain way. 

LABEL

In September I was approached by an organisation founded by a fellow workmate from college asking me to produce some work as part of their exhibitions for Body Confidence, and as an organisation they strive to not make beauty an exclusive trait to certain people but to embrace the beauty in everyone.

Eric Shaw

Daniel Sparkes

Daniel Sparkes is an English artist that I came across in a gallery in Berlin, his work consists of dehumanising and defacing certain portraits with collage aspects. I like the way his work could potentially relate to the theme of distorted body image as he is deliberately taking away an identity, and could link to what the media makes you think of yourself and a certain way of looking.