To Look And Feel Best We Do What Is Worst. Laura Jezamin Rose. Model: Rose Jeffery (2012).
My name is Laura Jezamin Rose Stephens and I have been working as a contemporary Ceramic and Jewellery artist since 2010.
I work with a variety of different materials including, Clay, Various metals such as Copper, Silver and Pewter, Wood and Various Fabric's. I also work with photography.
I am currently working towards my degree show that will take place in june of 2013.
My work focuses mainly on Female Beauty and the ever changing ideal of the female form.
My work questions modern ideals of beauty by commenting on the narrow and unstable view of the human body in the 21st Century.
Everyday restrictions are placed on our bodies through narrow perspectives of beauty. Over recent years it has become ever more important to look a certain way, with more and more social and media pressures being placed on the body. We are trapped in an unrealistic ideal, and we are being made to feel uncomfortable in our own skin.
I use cages placed over the head as a sign that we are trapped by the need to be beautiful and that we are restricted by these demands. The cages are heavy and uncomfortable, they symbolise being trapped and weighed down by the pressure’s that are placed upon us in day to day life.
All my work show’s sign’s of entrapment and restriction of the human body, but they can also be related to protective armour. We as individuals have to protect ourselves from judgements passed on to us by others. We all have our own protective barrier that we put up to protect us from harm, weather it is physical or mental harm. My work resembles the barrier that each of us put up to protect ourselves, and also deal with these issues.
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
I work with a variety of different materials including, Clay, Various metals such as Copper, Silver and Pewter, Wood and Various Fabric's. I also work with photography.
I am currently working towards my degree show that will take place in june of 2013.
My work focuses mainly on Female Beauty and the ever changing ideal of the female form.
My work questions modern ideals of beauty by commenting on the narrow and unstable view of the human body in the 21st Century.
Everyday restrictions are placed on our bodies through narrow perspectives of beauty. Over recent years it has become ever more important to look a certain way, with more and more social and media pressures being placed on the body. We are trapped in an unrealistic ideal, and we are being made to feel uncomfortable in our own skin.
I use cages placed over the head as a sign that we are trapped by the need to be beautiful and that we are restricted by these demands. The cages are heavy and uncomfortable, they symbolise being trapped and weighed down by the pressure’s that are placed upon us in day to day life.
All my work show’s sign’s of entrapment and restriction of the human body, but they can also be related to protective armour. We as individuals have to protect ourselves from judgements passed on to us by others. We all have our own protective barrier that we put up to protect us from harm, weather it is physical or mental harm. My work resembles the barrier that each of us put up to protect ourselves, and also deal with these issues.
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.