Lillith Stevens

Lillith has focused her artwork on the theme of 'body features'. Through her artwork she hopes to convey to an audience that we do not need to look like the celebrities that flood our social media, advertisements, reading material, television and more. She desires to prove to the viewer how they are perfect exactly the way they are even if they don't have a million dollar dress or a professional makeup assistant.

LILLITH STEVENS

“Unknown Artwork 1”

The society of today is a pressure based day and age, dictating what we should look like in order to fit into the perfect structure that of a covered up face with powder and cream exposed for the world to judge. Through this pastel artwork, I want to communicate how that isn’t the case, how we are able to walk around with freckles and pimples, different coloured eyes and different skin tones. The smooth blends of a blue pastel upon the face symbolise sadness, with links to my aesthetics of sadness and guilt. Sadness is presented in the long hoops we wear and the chiselling of our faces till they fall apart. All to fit into a society that will judge us no matter what. In contrast, the other half of the face is represented by an orange blended pastel through to a dark red shade by using a paper stump. This demonstrates guilt as it is the true side of beauty which we cover up overthinking what people see and will say, when we should be considering how astonishing we already look and are.

Pastel, pastel paper, blending stump, kneadable eraser, fixative, white charcoal pencil

125cm x 95cm

LILLITH STEVENS

“Unknown Artwork 2”

Through the eyes of others we are all chasing to look like someone else with body features that aren’t identical to our own. But in this process, we have slipped and forgotten that no one talks, acts or even thinks the same way. So this should make us think, are we going to look the same too? Why is a problem? Through my artwork I want to prove to the audience that we may all look different but we all still make up one person. The purposely cropped pieces of individual’s facial features force the aesthetic qualities of a wholesome, but guilty future look at ourselves. The wholesomeness is demonstrated through all the pieces that link together in silver ribbon to each other visualising and creating a strong bond through every different person coming together as one. However, guilt is demonstrated by how the combined face was cut and pasted from individual features. All these features were brought together as pieces of a puzzle to make up us, but our puzzle has already been complete for many years. We have just not taken the time to actually step back and appreciate our own body features for what they are already.

76.8cm x 56.7cm

iPhone, flash, photo shop, laptop, photographic paper, matt board, ribbon, wooden frame.

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