Today’s words come from Gosia, as Facebook reminded me of this memory we shared, and her post from 8 years ago about her art, and how she seeks to represent a woman in all her glory:
Advertisement is and has placed female nudity alongside anything else it tries to sell. It equates women with kitsch, something for the taking, worthless, invented to tempt and seduce men. But, woman was not made from Adam’s rib. She wasn’t created to please, and help pass the time. Her body wasn’t made for men’s pleasure. She is complete.
In one culture the response to the female body is to cloak it, hide it, ensure that it does not make men stray. Our culture on the other hand obsesses to fix it, because it is never good enough, compare it, enhance it, expose it, paint it, tighten it. etc However, shallow these two interpretations they both acknowledge the power of the female body. My art intends on reinstating the nude into the pantheon from which it originally came from, and bring it back to its sacred origins. To point out that she is complete. My ideal woman is not vying to enter a beauty contest, because she doesn’t need to, her beauty is not for the taking, not for your assessment, it is hers. It is a woman that understands her own sacredness. She owns herself. My art is an expression of her completeness, there to remind her of her power in and of herself. To shout that she is and never was a dangling carrot.
She's Come Undone 