American Beauty (Kayla Traxel)
Title of Piece: American Beauty
Size: 34.38" X 25.31" w/ frame
Print or Original?: Original
Medium: magazine, acrylic paint
Price: $900
Description: This artwork captures the moment when we wake up to our relationship with beauty ideals, showing how we move from collecting "perfect" images to questioning why we collected them. The painted figure stands among magazine cutouts not as someone aspiring to match them, but as someone who now sees through their carefully constructed illusion. Through contrasting real with manufactured beauty, the piece reveals how we evolve from wanting to become these images to understanding why we wanted them so desperately. The chaotic arrangement of glossy cutouts represents our past hunger for transformation, while the central figure embodies the freedom that comes from recognizing that beauty was consuming us, not the other way around. At its heart, this work celebrates the power of becoming an active reader of beauty standards rather than remaining their passive recipient.
Title of Piece: American Beauty
Size: 34.38" X 25.31" w/ frame
Print or Original?: Original
Medium: magazine, acrylic paint
Price: $900
Description: This artwork captures the moment when we wake up to our relationship with beauty ideals, showing how we move from collecting "perfect" images to questioning why we collected them. The painted figure stands among magazine cutouts not as someone aspiring to match them, but as someone who now sees through their carefully constructed illusion. Through contrasting real with manufactured beauty, the piece reveals how we evolve from wanting to become these images to understanding why we wanted them so desperately. The chaotic arrangement of glossy cutouts represents our past hunger for transformation, while the central figure embodies the freedom that comes from recognizing that beauty was consuming us, not the other way around. At its heart, this work celebrates the power of becoming an active reader of beauty standards rather than remaining their passive recipient.
Title of Piece: American Beauty
Size: 34.38" X 25.31" w/ frame
Print or Original?: Original
Medium: magazine, acrylic paint
Price: $900
Description: This artwork captures the moment when we wake up to our relationship with beauty ideals, showing how we move from collecting "perfect" images to questioning why we collected them. The painted figure stands among magazine cutouts not as someone aspiring to match them, but as someone who now sees through their carefully constructed illusion. Through contrasting real with manufactured beauty, the piece reveals how we evolve from wanting to become these images to understanding why we wanted them so desperately. The chaotic arrangement of glossy cutouts represents our past hunger for transformation, while the central figure embodies the freedom that comes from recognizing that beauty was consuming us, not the other way around. At its heart, this work celebrates the power of becoming an active reader of beauty standards rather than remaining their passive recipient.