Art by Trinity Sutterfield: Adipositivity

Monday, October 28, 2013

Adipositivity

ad·i·pose

[ad-uh-pohs]

adjective

1.

fatty; consisting of, resembling, or relating to fat.

pos·i·tiv·i·ty

[poz-i-tiv-i-tee] Show IPA

noun, plural pos·i·tiv·i·ties.

1.

the state or character of being positive: a positivity that accepts the world as it is.

The Adipositivity Project is a website that has given me a lot of inspiration of the last semester. At adipositivity, they post a lot of pictures of both women and men of all ages and races who have proudly accepted their bodies and show them proudly for everyone. This is in direct contrast that people who's bodies that are big are automatically deemed ugly, when in all actually, all bodies are beautiful. I was introduced to this wonderful website when I showed my work to my senior thesis class at the beginning of the semester. A classmate suggested I check it out and upon doing so I ended up finding some of very valuable inspiration that I needed desperately this semester.

Currently, the Adipositivity website is down due to a computer crash and has been down since the end of August. However much of website's previous content has since been posted on tumblr, which I follow regularly.

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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.