Self / Image

watercolor, collage, ink
22 x 30"
August 1997
collection of Cristy Peterson & Jonathan Morse

Text: includes positive and negative words about body image.

This piece speaks deeply to women's struggle to accept and honor the gift of our bodies. The typewritten words reflect negative language used by our culture about women, and the collage uses magazine photographs. This false image is torn away to reveal a truer self portrait of human, female beauty made in the image of God, as echoed in God's nurturing, handwritten words.

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© Melanie Weidner 2005