Aimee Hollands- Body Portraits

My practice is mainly fine art based which is reflected through abstract and/or surreal

portraits. For this series of work I have been focusing on the subject of the body and

how its represented within reality.

To me the body is something that should be appreciated and viewed as its own

individual self, all automatic connotations, pornography, gender and sexuality, should

be removed allowing you to view it for what it is not what its associated with.

Body Portraits takes inspiration from classical Greek sculpture and how the Greeks

believed that the nude was a celebration of physical beauty, expressing nobility and

potential of the human spirit (Saunders 1989: p.9).

The environment in which I have placed the body in turns it into an object altering

how you view and read it. The use of the paper transforms the body concealing it

and drawing the viewer in to look beyond the surface. The mirror reflections and the

positioning of the body makes you think more about what is being presented.

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