What's so great about the female body anyway?

For my final video I decided to explore the visuals of the female body aspired in the American society. Skinny used to be the thing, but now being fit is the in look. I am naturally very thin so I too aspire to be fit, but I am also very comfortable in the body that I am in. 

This video is here to show the extremes that females will do to aspire the perfect female body...or at least what society sees as that. While one can simply work out to get abs it is not always that easy to do so. 

The questions my video leaves are: 

Why isn't she comfortable in her own skin?

Is she comfortable in her own skin?

Why does she care about what society thinks?

Flip-books are the most tedious forms of art....

While creating this flip book I had learned that this is one of the most tedious forms of art in the entire world. I wanted to create something with a lot of power behind it so I decided to focus on the Chakra Chart. The 7 Chakras in the Chakra system are the energy centers of the human body. I paired this theme with a book about meditation and Qigong, also known as Chi Kung. This is a form exercise and breathing techniques related to Tai Chi. I am realizing as I get older that being at peace is the best state that one can be in. Qigong and the 7 Chakras are important factors in becoming at peace and so that is why I chose them as my main subjects for this time based media project. 

I'm a Christmas Tree, and I am Proud

For my performance art piece I decided to go Christmas tree shopping, and pretend that I was one with the trees. I am very terrible at keeping a straight face, but tried very hard to do so. While there was not many people out shopping for trees at this time, I did get passed by some Home Depot workers that looked at me as if I was mental. I continued my trek to Plant High School's Christmas tree stands where one of the workers actually came up and heard was I was doing so he actually tagged me like a Christmas tree. I was only worth $100 to him apparently, haha. Definitely a great way to build up some confidence though.