Eating Disorders: (Consuming Disorder)
The notion of the relationship between the human body and creation has always had its place in history. Attempts to understand and define the origin of the human body have resulted in the conception of various myths.
The belief in an immutable rift between the body and the soul activated a yearning for access to that ideal state of being.

The birth of the mythic body came out of a desire to create order from chaos. Chaos, conceived to be some formless and empty darkness, is transformed into an active space of becoming and change. This transformation has since been interpreted as androcentric with the emergent body rising from a perceived feminine formlessness

Defined by its associated meanings, the body becomes a gendered object determining what it means to be male or female.

Project: Eating Disorder(s) : Consuming Disorder
A con/fusion of two conditions which (in)form material bodies.

Sight: The cover girl-an iconographic symbol of the ideal female body. Our perception is activated by a look, a double take½a glance½a stare½a gaze. In that instant, we are consumed.

Site: The fashion magazine-a body-image bible. Meaning is bound within the form of the body; confined to the outer limits of its physical form. In dissolving the ideal, the meaning transforms…