Aesthetic surgery is booming

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Aesthetic surgery is booming, especially over the last decade. Cosmetic methods have become less painful, having a faster healing. Humanity's search for perfectionism evoked me to analyze and become opinionated about this everyday issue. The global effects have led to some kind of deformity, mutated faces, unnatural characteristics and a plastic mask sewn on your original natural looks. But what is plastic surgery? It may be a complex  deformation ,an addiction yet, for many it is a way of dealing with “false characteristics” and  is seen  as a blessed healing .Through my work journal I have managed to study the way our "meat" is cut ,the way its sewed and healed. I realized that the procedure takes horrendous guts to go through and double the guts to overcome the excruciating pain…Over the past seven years I have been bombarded with TV models racing through skeleton marches , porn stars pumping their breasts  and thousands of everyday records of someone wishing to adopt another identity. Inspirations came from compelling artists such as: Jenny Saville , Mary Daniel Hobson, Kiki Smith and Tim Hawnkinson. They have mapped my way into gathering material for research and pulled me into the world of Art Surgery…

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       My first series of works were inspired by the exaggeration of plastic surgery. Most of the time, women come out with firm, pumped, siliconated lips or with extra big balls like breasts. All these examples of unnatural behaviour, looking like mutated characteristics  evoked me to construct four plastic faces with tights at the base of the skin ,pulled, wripped ,sewn and again torn all over yet again healed with the art of embroidery .Some of the fake dolls have a nose being rotated from its original spot. I cut clown lips from carnival masks and sewed them ...

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