"TV has been attacking us all our lives - now we can attack it back" - Nam June Paik

Monday, April 23, 2012

Wash It Off Documentation

The digital age allows for complete control and manipulation of images, whether it’s making colors more vivid or taking out elements for a better composition. The most damaging of these manipulations is that of the Photoshop perfect models in teen and women’s magazines and ads. These images can control and destroy a woman’s self-esteem as they set standards that no human could possible achieve. It is an internal, everyday struggle that we face and it needs to be taken down from within. The standards of beauty will always surround us. It is how we receive them that matters.

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