Bared Cocoon

My work is routed in exploring women’s’ bodies and their relationship between our cultural, racial, and social environment. Focusing on insecurities, my artwork explores and exposes the vulnerabilities women have about their differences to each other, and how they seek to physically mask or morph their bodies, to achieve acceptance in an obsessive process of evolving, using various beautification methods. n my paintings the female figure grows more distorted as they evolve through self-manipulation. These explorations also mirror natures process of growth, using regurgitated personal inflictions as the watering process. Inspired by the rebirth story of the Narcissus flowers, which sprouted from Narcissus’ death while infatuated with his reflection, the painting ‘Bared Cocoon’ creates a space that revisits the mental state after alteration. The figures are transported to decorative gardens that mirror rebirth and obsession from a surreal perspective. I’m Questioning the re-evaluation of self after changing, is there a gain in confidence, or and unsatisfied need for more change?