Confused, Vivacious, and Afraid

This article from a magazine shows how media can cause girls to become obsessed with their appearance and become anorexic. She used pro-anorexia websites to support others, like herself, to starve themselves and become thinner and thinner. The images that websites like these post are extremely upsetting and honestly, repulsive, yet these girls are striving for these disturbing bodies. I am not going to post any of these websites, because it is disturbing, but I was using the things that they wrote, along with photos to use in my artwork. 

I created three pieces from reading this article and then looking at pro-anorexia websites.

The first image is meant to show the massive amounts of confusion, depression, and the difficulty of this disease. Much of the disease has to do with control, but this image is to show just how out of control the disease is. It also represents bulimia and an eating disorder in general because it is so overwhelming and chaotic. There are times of binging, purging, hating food, loving food. I used bright colors to represent how some regard an eating disorder as a good thing, urging others to do the same. 

                                                               "Overwhelmed"

                                                 This is done with watercolor and sharpie. 

My second two images are meant to go together. The first one shows a negative relationship towards food. The dark colors represent how people see food as a bad and fearful thing. The second one is bright and represents the beauty, vitality, life force, and energy that is in food. Food is meant to fuel our bodies and help them flourish. These are my two favorite images because I love to think of food as a beautiful and vivacious thing, so I really enjoyed capturing this. 

                       "Vitality"                                                                       "Fear"

Done with colored pencil                                              Done with crayon

Thompson, Arianne. "Why I Made Girls Like You Anorexic." WordPress. Sugar Magazine, Jan. 2011. Web. <http://arianethomson.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/sugar-magazine-‘why-i-made-girls-like-you-anorexic’-january-2011/>.