In my junior rhetoric class here at GCE we are making art pieces that calls people and gets their attention. In order to prepare for this we went to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Living Memorial to look at the design and area that is was in. The living memorial was in Marquette Park, where there was march for equal housing in 1976. We got assigned to create an art piece that represented a topic that we had some type of passion for. I decided that I wanted to do my art piece on body dysmorphia. This is a topic that I could not stress enough. It needs to be talked about more and noticed.
Artist statement:
My name is Eileen and I am a junior here at GCE lab school. I am a junior and I made an art piece about body dysmorphia. People should care about this issue and look into it. This is a big issue especially with social media and this expectation that you have to look a certain way and if you don’t you are considered ugly. My artwork's message is that every body type is beautiful. Nobody should tell you that your body is not beautiful, especially on the internet. People should care because this could cause self harm and thoughts of ending your life just because you “don't fit society's standards”. Some important things to note are that “among adults who have body dysmorphic disorder, 80% report having thoughts of suicide and 44% have attempted to end their own lives”. Also “Among adults who have body dysmorphic disorder, 80% report having thoughts of suicide, and 44% have attempted to take their own lives”. Many people have this disorder and don't know how to deal with it. “Multiple studies indicate that body dysmorphic disorder impacts between 7% and 2.3% of the general population”. (the refuge). Some materials I used for my art piece were cardboard, paper, markers, and printed out pictures. This art piece is a simple way of getting the point across that every body type and everybody is beautiful and seeing somebody else's body type or beauty should affect your own. I used ethos in this art piece by writing a small passage about how I felt and things I did that I thought would make me feel better. I used pathos just talking about the topic, it's emotional and may cause some vulnerability when talking about it. I could see this being put up on public transit. I could also possibly see this at locations or stores that are mostly populated by women. I don’t think that this is a topic talked about enough. It’s something that affects everyday life. The way you can look at yourself even though to others you might look perfect takes a really big toll on your mental health and you as a person. Although there is no treatment for body dysmorphia you can still go to therapy and overall, just trying to take little steps into loving who you are.
Body dysmorphic disorder: Statistics, causes, signs & symptoms: The refuge. The Refuge, A Healing Place. (2018, November 6). Retrieved November 12, 2021, from https://www.therefuge-ahealingplace.com/eating-disorders/body-dsymorphic-disorder/effects-symptoms-signs/.
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