Final- Body Acceptance

Alexandra Rosario, Love Who YOU are, 2017     

The topic of my project is LOVING YOUR BODY. I named it loving your body because as previously stated in my midterm, I would like to help people embrace their body and be happy with the body they have. This project is inspired by how society is looks at the body image of an individual. It is Important to me that people accept themselves how they are and are not let down by what other people say.I decided to continue the same theme as my midterm because I was truly inspired and motivated to show my classmates that being yourself and accepting who you are is all that matters. You must love yourself before being able to love someone else. When deciding what i wanted to do for this final project I looked back at my midterm project and seeing the reaction of how my professor and classmates reacted about how confident I was with myself and explain how my body was being judged by my own family members. My project is a mini collage of inspirational pieces of different magazines. Ana Mendieta's work is what kept me motivated to continue my project as body acceptance because she was so confident and made beautiful work exposing herself in her work. I think my images shows a sense of confidence and body acceptance and shows that I have been motivated to love myself and what I look like. The difference between my first project and the last project had changed a lot because my first project I based it more on the influence John Berger had on me about loving yourself and how mirrors can make or break you. This final project was inspired by Ana Mendieta's work in nature and body acceptance is what made me think about making my project a tree shaped as a woman with curves and out of her branches come out different inspirational saying I found in a magazines.