Let her eat cake!
over it by Liz Acosta
Artist statement:
An ephemeral drawing is one that is created to be destroyed. It addresses the relationships between medium, subject, and significance.
over it is the documentation of an ephemeral art piece that talks about overcoming disordered eating through the creation and consumption of a cake with a scale drawn on it with icing. Though its narrative is deeply personal, the experience is nearly universal in our image-obsessed culture with its narrow standards of feminine beauty.
Liz Acosta is a photographer, writer, artist, cyclist, and activist in Los Angeles. With a degree from the University of Southern California, her work is primarily focused on questions of the body and its relationship to gender, sexuality, and performance. She blogs at www.happyland2007.com and will be joining the Feminist Fatale family as a blogger in the near future.
If this is the Liz I think it is– and it is!– wanted to say hello, and thank you for this creative and powerful piece! Very cool and like many, many women I’m sure, I can relate.
Comment by Nina Harada — July 23, 2010 @ 12:59 pm
Yay! Lizzie will be blogging!
Comment by Cleo — July 29, 2010 @ 1:14 am
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