Mya Beausoleil

College of the Holy Cross, 2023, Chemistry

How Do I Look?

wire, plaster, foam, acrylic paint

16″ x 4″ x 18″

2022

This piece is meant to portray the way body image is scrutinized over through advertisements, social media, “influencer” culture, and this idea of health. As a young woman, I’ve felt this obsessiveness throughout my every day and am well aware of how destructive it can be both mentally and physically. I created this piece to try to take away this expectation, symbolized in the eyes, as in if we took away the vision, the judgments, and false beauty expectations, how much easier it’d be to just exist.