Tessa Jones

Throughout my study I have always looked into way that the media influences us in our everyday lives. The media is a powerful tool as it reaches us in different ways television, radio, posters and billboards. I feel it can influence us highly and in result change us from what we truly are.

I started off by looking at different ways to take away the mouth in paintings so the figures in my paintings were wrapped or gagged. In the sense we do not have freedom of speech. The media is more influential than we realise, we might feel we have to be something we are not therefore covering up our own views.

In looking into the idea of my work more, the more I realised my work became around to be more about insecurities and how people feel in today’s society, which the media and the advertising world we live in could be to blame. How do we cover up our insecurities? And what is the idea of beauty? What is it? Is there an ideal beauty? I have found that a way that people try to cover up their insecurities is by using humour; it reflects and makes you think of something in an entirely different way. So a face looked at as humorous people will laugh at and think of it highly, but when that same face is used to look at for beauty we really start to judge it more significantly.

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