Annotated texts.
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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