Women Series 2: Packaged

Women today have put too much emphasis on their appearances for either personal reasons or to measure up to social expectations. To achieve this ‘Ideal’ form of figure, they put themselves through various physical transformations via plastic surgeries, slimming centres, chemical intakes, etc. The huge setback is that they are overly manipulated by the depiction of what is ‘Ideal’ from social media, performers, actors, models or advertisements.

Packaged portrays the social structure that boxed up the idea of ‘Ideal’ figure. If one lives in the Renaissance period, being ‘large’ is beautiful but now media says otherwise. So today’s women are so ‘well-packaged’ that they seem to lose their true sense of Self and Identity behind the illusion of physical ‘perfection.’ Again here it is a painting within a painting where the woman has the option to have her own identity and not be conformed (the woman behind the said painting).

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