artist statement

Personal appearance is a major factor in our world today.  Magazines and newspapers worldwide give us, the public, an "ideal" image to live by.  But how ideal is it?  Ideal for who?  We are constantly being shown that we must be a certain weight and wear a certain brand or style in order to prosper in our modern world, yet underneath it all, who are we, really?  Fashion and the media in general can be very demanding on how our lives should be held.  My approach is to make a statement about fashion by showing the contradiction between the material and the actual.

This statement is in relation to my studio photography final, which is now a summer project because we don't have enough time to shoot in class.