Art by Trinity Sutterfield: March 2013

Monday, March 4, 2013

It's been awhile since a made a post. So here's an update! I have made so much progress in figuring out what I want to do for right now. I was focussing on making women feel empowered and that is still a primary goal an underlying theme in my work, but I'm taking it a step further and casting women in the role of goddesses, particularly fertility goddesses because they were valued and praised by their size instead of demeaned. I was going to use the body as a canvas, and I may still do that, but right now I am focusing just in the goddess aspect and editing the images of my models in photoshop.

I know this is just a crappy picture of the screen, but I'm updating this from my phone. I'll post a better picture tomorrow, but hey look at this!

I'm not normally a photographer but a good friend of mine is and she inspired me to do this project. You can view Becca's blog here.

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Trinity Sutterfield

Feminist Activist Artist from Cincinnati. I currently live in the bustling metropolis of Hebron Kentucky, but spend most of my time at The University of Cincinnati- DAAP (Design, Architecture, Art and Planning).

For many years now I have been interested in the societal beauty demands that women are faced with. My artwork takes a critical view of social and cultural issues. In my work, I explore themes like body positivity and feminism, feminism and the effects of societal beauty standards on women through many mediums including drawing, painting, photography and digital editing/painting. My work is influenced by artists as diverse as Ewan Uglow, Jenny Saville, Sandro Botticelli and William Bouguereau. I am also influenced by many writers, including blogs such as Adipositivity and Dances with Fat. Daily, women are faced with thousands of images and articles telling them that are not good enough, simply because they are not small enough. I do not believe this is true. My work celebrates the plus size body, often showing the attributes that society deems ugly or undesirable as the ideal. I aim to cause social change. It is for this reason that I call myself a feminist activist artist. As a whole my work is typically positive, celebrating the body and teaching my audience to love theirs; however it also tends to demonize society’s thin obsession. I have been focusing on this theme for nearly four years and I still hold the same fervor and passion for it that I did when I first started working with it; however my concept has matured beyond just showing that big women are beautiful to showing that all bodies are beautiful no matter their size. I tend focus on bigger women because there is more of an element of rebellion there in portraying beauty in a figure that society deems ugly or undesirable, rather than in portraying a figure that is slightly more socially acceptable because it is smaller. With my work, I aim to show the world that all bodies are beautiful not only in spite of their size but also because of their size.