Indelicate creature

Our perceptions of how we would be as adults when we were children was all propaganda. We are fed different fake ideologies of how we were ‘supposed’ to look like that was structured by the societies we lived in. We were told women are hairless. Women’s skin is smooth with no blemishes. Women must be petite. No rolls or stretch marks. Women must be obedient but yet be able to stand up for ourselves. Women must fit the beauty standards. But boys like us ‘natural’. If we could meet these impossible ideals, then we are ‘real women’.

When I was around 10 years old, I used to be terrified of being a size 10. I was told that being ‘thin’ was the ultimate goal and was the key to being ‘popular’. I mean you can’t blame me, somehow Disney managed to convince us all that the main characters best friend was always ‘bigger’ than they actually were. We were fooled into thinking thinness = main character. That makes sense, right?

Indelicate creature is solely focused on using photography in a journalistic poetry style to exhibit the beauty of women in a realistic form: rejecting those damaging tropes we were exposed to as children. Paying homage to the ‘messy girl’ aesthetic, the scene follows you around the bedroom with details of childhood memorabilia that themes on healing your inner child. The aim of this project is to bring a light and show the poetry of loving your own body, despite what you have been told by capitalism. It’s a reject of patriarchy’s ideas of women being ‘delicate’ by displaying the beauty of the indelicate creature.