{"title":"Arianne Zager","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg style=\"max-height: 300px; max-width:55%\" src=\"https:\/\/helloart-prod-bucket.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com\/media\/artist\/arianne-zager\/arianne-zager-profile.jpg\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI try to portray thought-provoking elements with my works’ composition. To acknowledge the blurred space between\u003cbr\u003ebeautification rituals, societal conformities for women around the world and our true form as we naturally stand. I try to\u003cbr\u003ealways give a nod to the unique and painful processes we, women, have and put ourselves through to be visually\u003cbr\u003epleasing to everyone.\u003cbr\u003eThis comes out in broken and bound feet, stretched out necks, extended full eyelashes, unrealistically long legs, bright\u003cbr\u003ered lips, painted nails and beautiful hair-do’s. I accompany these ideas with “flawed beauty:\u003cbr\u003e” jelly roll tummies, saggy\u003cbr\u003ebreasts, lumpy back sides and fly aways in the hair. I almost always give them faces of serenity and calmness to show\u003cbr\u003ethat even when you break yourself for perfection you already achieved it just in your presence. You can still be happy\u003cbr\u003eeven when you are not “perfect.\u003cbr\u003e” Others view you as beautiful not despite your flaws but because of them.\u003cbr\u003eI have spent a lot of time traveling the world, from Africa to Asia to Australia, quietly observing how people and societies\u003cbr\u003eoperate in general; always taking special note of the women. How one place’s absolute beauty is another’s true\u003cbr\u003enightmare and vice versa. In all these disparate societies, women still have a ritual, of enticing themselves ing not only\u003cbr\u003eto their partners but to their community at large.\u003cbr\u003eWhile traveling water was not always readily available. I would go fetch water to paint with from the rivers, lakes, oceans,\u003cbr\u003epuddles, melted snow etc. I started to notice two things in particular. One was how the different waters made the exact\u003cbr\u003esame paints and pigments react differently--due maybe to the PH in the waters. An almost untouched stream in the hills\u003cbr\u003eof northern Sierra Leone, Africa made bright almost neon hues in my work. On the other hand, a polluted city lake in New\u003cbr\u003eDeli,India made the exact same color lack luster and almost grey.\u003cbr\u003eI also noticed how dipping my hands in the water with the jar or vessel I used to capture the water and then painting my\u003cbr\u003ewatercolor works with the water I hand dipped from, made this deep, deep connection for me. That I am mostly water, that\u003cbr\u003eas a woman my water is sacred and by dipping my hands in natural water around the world made me feel close to the\u003cbr\u003ewomen on that land, those present and those before. Not that I can claim a thing, not that I am part of anyone’s history but\u003cbr\u003emy own, but a little bit closer to my voice fueled from the connections I feel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eARTIST’S STATEMENT\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eDo what you love\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/helloart.com\/collections\/arianne-zager.oembed","provider":"helloart","version":"1.0","type":"link"}