Body Politics

This is the female torso that Tammy has made, covered in chalboard paint, so you can participate with Body Politics.
Come to Artomatic before June 15th and participate by leaving words or drawings on the torso.
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We photograph and then erase the torsos every so often so new people can put up their “art” on Tammy’s torsos.
Stop by Artomatic and you can write on the torsos too!

Just to keep you up to speed – here is an update of Tammy’s pregnant torso. 
We took photos of them this past Sunday, but they were in RAW format and had to convert them, so here they are.
I am working also on images of the male and female torsos with chalboard paint Tammy did.
The question [...]

My work “Made in China” is about Chinese foot binding.  See an image of it by clicking here.
The work has little drawers and little scrolls of paper people can leave comments on and tuck in the drawers.
I love the piece and even used some of my own blood on the bandages.  I hope that people [...]

Dara Chadwick writes about Skinny Jeans and letting go of her fat jeans too!

Please stop by Leslie Goldman’s site and watch her snippet from the Today show, where she talks about body image.
I have to say one of her bits of advice about complimenting women and not breaking them down to body parts – that is one of the key factors that helped me to heal my negative [...]

I have been sick all week.  I’m finally feeling better today.  All of my grand plans for Friday and the weekend at Artomatic were dashed.  As soon as I know my schedule, I’ll post it.  Hopefully flooding and bronchitis won’t have its way with the plans again!

The below scans are of the notes people left in the “Made In China” drawers this past Friday and Saturday.
I will be checking the drawers again this weekend and will post them as they come to us.
I did not include one that was a link to a porn site.  I figure they get enough exposure. 
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The Body Politics exhibit has three torsos that Tammy made – a male, female and pregnant torso.  She’s painted them with chalkboard paint.  Will photographed them Saturday night May 10th and I’m posting them here for you to see.  They have been erased and we will photograph them again either Thursday or Friday night and erase [...]

DVincentW of Youtube has put up a video of some of the work at Artomatic.  Tammy’s work is on the video.  Just thought I’d share.
See the video HERE.