The Weight of Control
Ahn J.
Digital Art (procreate)
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With social media promoting unrealistic and often unhealthy beauty standards, eating and body image have become major sources of distress, especially for teenagers. This digital painting explores binge-eating disorder and the suffocating pressure to maintain a slim figure. The woman consumes food uncontrollably as a severed hand forces her mouth open, portraying the loss of agency that those trapped in compulsive cycles of binging and purging struggle with. The piece ultimately conveys how societal expectations impact mental health, specifically focusing on eating disorders and how eating has become a source of fear and guilt.
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Creativity, to me, is being given the freedom to fill a canvas to whatever my heart desires. Creativity never has had a definite shape; though I'm confined to the canvas in a literal sense, artistically, being creative means I break frames and build new ones.
