#POW

i took good ole jimi hendrix off my phone wallpaper for this.
i wrote part of my visual studies project in this picture.

you have the slender child with make-up on standing in the foreground with a bikini on

and the chubbier child with a tee shirt sitting in the pool.

this photograph is obviously taking the liberty to insert the photographer's insight on the youth of today.

to me it is a social commentary on young girls -the two sides of the coin:

the conceited and the lazy.

the myth that smoking with curb your appetite and you will lose weight is being portrayed through a young girl in this picture and the laziness that has taken over causing an epidemic of childhood obesity in america.

while each of these girls should be enjoying a day in the pool, instead the depicting what many adolescence and adult women go through everyday.

lowered self-esteem and social pressures to look a certain way continue to increase as the subject's decrease in age.

now 8 year olds are looking in the mirror and pinching "baby fat" and feeling obese.

and who is there to comfort them?

the women that complain in front of them about their physical appearances unaware of the effects it has on the children.

"do what i say not what i do"

it doesn't work.

we learn by watching. it's called SHAPING.

if we see our mother obsess about losing weight, hair and make-up

we learn that we should be skinner and pretty and shiny too.

to change these girls. we first have to change ourselves.

SHOW THEM that we were all created a God that made us in His imagine.

let them know, you look beauty in a paper bag.

stay in school get a good education. and love yourself.