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Painting can be used as a medium to explore the connection between people who have a warped sense of their own body.



Rosanna Jones – SKIN (Hosmer, 2013)

A mixed media artist and photographer Rosanna Jones dives into the exploration of how negative or positive body image can affect the unconscious identity. Jones states that her work is inspired by a French writer Francois de La Rochefoucauld’s quote “We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves” (goodreads, 2020) (Hosmer, 2013).She explains that this relates to different parts of the body such as eye colour, skin colour, body shape and hair affecting how humanity presents itself to ourselves and to the world. Throughout this project jones questions the idea of beauty, regarding to how people feel physically and internally (Hosmer, 2013). Comparing this to how people are perceived differently to the world. She creates her works with different mixes of paints layered digitally to create a digital photo collage. Jones use of pallet relates to the subject of body with pastel skin tones merging and blurring together to create a feeling of fragmentation and disfigurement to the body (Hosmer, 2013).

Jones’s work relates to my own work with the use of subject matter and the way she digitally paints. To connect the body with a form of fragmentation and disfigurement that people relate to with their own so-called flaws with their body. Blurring the lines of identity and creating merging with the body, connecting people with their own warped sense of their own bodies.


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