When considering how to encompass our contemporary society's conception of the body (specifically the female body), I knew I wanted the subject to be the skin-deep notion of beauty, but also hoped to provide an explanation of the reason behind this cultural though pattern. Why as a people do we see only the skin, the face, the body of an individual when so much depth lies beneath? After thinking about it for a while, I honestly still don't know why we women subject ourselves to the ideal of femininity to which our culture chains us and hides us.
With this image I hoped, first, to portray through the content the act of putting on a mask, a universal image representing the facade of femininity. The girls are getting ready for the day, seeking to make their bodies "presentable" to whomever they will see and externally preparing themselves. I hopes with the red robes to communicate the idea of mortality and emphasize their human nature which cannot be covered up and sets them apart from the external, black and white, solid and lifeless world that the girl seeks to be a pat of with her monochromatic mask.
