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"You are the sculptor of your own body"
Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2014 5:10 pm
by LoriLifts
I posted this on my thread but thought I would share it here too.
It's pretty cool.
http://i.imgur.com/ytzSYFt.jpg
Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2014 12:48 am
by clarinetgal
Yes, that was cool!
Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2014 1:40 am
by oolala53
Hmm. I'm not that interested in sculpting my body anymore. Most bodies are not going to get "sculpted" with moderate habits. I'm willing to sculpt my habits, and only so far with those, then revel in the improved vitality. Thankfully the body responds pretty well to moderation!
But for anyone who is willing to put in the extra time and effort, go for it!
Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2014 8:50 am
by Dale
I find that picture kind of disturbing. She's quite violently attacking herself with a hammer and chisel and I don't think I like that imagery! Also her outer/original body doesn't match to the inner one - it's much bigger overall, not just fatter. It strikes me to be more about a particular feeling of trying to lose weight - of being trapped in a body that isn't really yours, and having to destroy it to get it out (rather than being aspirational). I kind of like the picture but I'm not sure I'm getting the right message from it!
Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2015 10:21 pm
by nbh76
Hmmmm I really like that sculpture.
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 3:23 am
by ironchef
Like Dale, I'm not totally comfortable with the symbolism at work in this piece. It made me think of that Kate Harding piece about the "fantasy of being thin" (from way back in the dark ages of 2007), and the weight industry mythology around a "thin person struggling to get out".
I'm in an interesting place physically at the moment, in that my body is being sculpted / changed by my own hormones and other changes required to bear a child. So, if that sculpture was me, it would be a relatively average woman, chipping away to find a larger, bustier, pregnant woman inside
Art is doing its job if it makes us think and respond, right?
