During this project, I take myself as an inspector to discover a hidden secret inside of me. From a perspective of someone who is feeling anxious and insecure about the body all the time. Although the title “Embrace” might lead people to relate my project into a body positive campaign, in fact, my project is …
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You’re Ideal
From the public voting in the course, I summarized the ideal body type. To represent the idea of having the ideal body type and being ideal, I want to do an interactive project. I painted on a white XXL T-shirt with acrylic about the ideal figure. And let people wear it and capture their reaction …
#Fatneral
Fatneral is the funeral of the ugly human fat. I did a set design with soaps represent the human body fat. And all the other eatable fat represent the guests of the fatneral. This scene represents the concept of the desire of removing the body fat but still remain all the other fat. Almost seem …
Voting for your ideal body type
Because I want to make my project more interactively, I start to think about what is the choice from public, what they think of “ideal body type”. And I want to transfer the selection from the public onto the oversize white T-shirt so most of people can wear it. And I wonder how they feel …
Stretch mark typography
Text can be a powerful thing when it counters the photograph. In this case I want to create my own work and my own text with respect to the symbol of being fat and stretched. Stretch mark is something that cover nearly every part of my body, and I had them since I was a …
Using photoshop to explore my body images
By using photoshop, I can edit my photographs into my ideal body type. Also by layering the realistic version and the edited version together, I can see the comparison in a more straight forward perspective. The outcome does make me think about a lot about myself and what I always want to be like. The …
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‘I am also a Victoria’s Secret Angel’
I let my friend took some photoshoots of me to interpret the Victoria’s secret’s style also challenge the brand image. From being the model in this photoshoots I wanted to almost act like I am a Victoria’s secret model. When I was performing, I was thinking that I am the most sexy and attractive girl …
Visiting the Victoria’s secret store at New Bond street, London
From the purpose of discovering the ideal image and the debate. I visited the Victoria’s secret store locate in New Bond street. The store is made up of 3 floors and one underground floor. Each floor has different collections with different style. And the underground floor has the sub brand Victoria’s secret PINK which market …
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Victoria’s Secret Angel VS The Blue Angel
From the perspective of discover the self image we desired, I want to look into the scenario of the impact of body image. As I said in my proposal, I always feel that the more weight I gain, the further distance towards a Beauty. I desire to have the slim body with shape and I …
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PROJECT: EMBRACE
Title: Embrace Whether we should embrace ourselves as we are or the self-images we want to achieve. Content: I have always been an overweighted individual since I was an infant. My mother was a professional dancer also a dance teacher. In her opinion, the body with fat is ugly. Therefore, I am always the ugly …
Meixuan Cheng 