You Were Never A Very Pretty Girl, Were You?

You Were Never A Very Pretty Girl, Were You?
18x24"
Watercolor, Charcoal, Ink, Nailpolish
 
You Were Never A Very Pretty Girl, Were You? displays the body as a site of appetite, adornment, and resistance. The figure’s face fills the frame, pressing forward with an expression that is confrontational rather than compliant. Pearls—symbols of refinement and luxury—are pulled into the mouth, caught between consumption and gluttony, collapsing any pretense at pleasing the viewer.
 
Loose watercolors flush the skin with pinks and violets, while charcoal and ink scratch the surface, refusing polish. The line oscillates between tenderness and abrasion, mirroring the tension between the ideal of beauty and the struggle to embody it.
 
In You Were Never a Pretty Girl, the title reads less as an insult than a declaration: a rejection of aesthetic obedience and a reclamation of presence on one’s own terms.