I am working on a new set of tapestries about Body Dysmorphia. I have suffered from BDD since I was a teenager. Part of the mental problem is that you worry about how your body appears to others but in reality, you are judging yourself in a way that others never see.
It occurred to me that if I could look in the mirror and see my body as just geometric shapes maybe it wouldn’t bother me as much. And as we age those shapes get longer or wider but they are still recognizable as our own body.
This series of three tapestries is the progression of my body shapes with the hope that other sufferers might see their body as just shapes in the mirror.
DESIGN FOR SHAPES IN THE MIRROR TAPESTRY TRIPTYCH