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For our geurnica project I decided to focus on plastic surgery. Back where I'm from, girls as young as 14 were getting some kind of procedure done to improve the way they looked. I personally would never get plastic surgery. No one needs a nose job, a facelift, or a tummy tuck, all they need is self-confidence. The media portrays these images of women who look like barbie dolls, but barbies are not real people. The photographs in magazines and advertisements are completely photoshopped to hide every possible imperfection while our imperfections are what make us human. There are plenty of things about my body I am not completely happy about but surgery is not the answer nor should it be for anyone.
I selected this photograph to represent a women going in for some kind of facial surgery. The cloth covering her eyes serves as a metaphor because I think that most people who decide to get plastic surgery are incapable of seeing and appreciating their beauty. This goes along well with the quote I used: "everything has its beauty; but not everyone can see it."
The background of the image is a list of every possible plastic surgery procedure. I decided to cut the model out from the photo and place her in front of this list of text. Next I decided to fade the text from dark to light so that the quote can be seen more clearly. Lastly, I used the brush tool to create this series of gray lines both straight and curvy to go around the image. I did this to frame the model and thought it nicely separated the background list of surgeries from the quote.
