Essay About Breast Implants And Body Of A Woman

Body Image Project
Essay title: Body Image Project
I visited the art gallery this month they are featuring Larry Kirkwoods Body Image Project. The
purpose of this exhibit to to help people understand that its who we are on the inside that makes us beautiful. The first thing I saw
when I walked into the gallery was a big piece of cardboard with pictures from magazines and people who visited made
comments about them. Overall, everyone who commented stated that beauty that we see in magazines is not real. The people
in the magazines send the message that you arent beautiful if you dont look like them. But in reality beauty is whatever you see
it as, not how you look. This exihibit shows that beauty is found in all shapes and sizes, not just one shape and size. As I
continued to walk around I saw all different body shapes. Each of them were beautiful in their own way. There was one body of a woman who
was 56 years old. Her chest was not that of a normal woman because her breast implants leaked, and left indentations in her chest. There was
another woman who had one breast removed and wanted to be a part of this art because she wanted to offer hope to those who are going
through breast cancer. After I left the exhibit I went to the artists website, he has pictures of some of the bodies hes casted and why each of them
is beautiful. Also on the website he has his mission of this project. He says his mission is to ” give you a more honest and healthy