Here's my newest work completed!! It's the first entry into my new series in which I am addressing social issues in our country. This one is touching on obesity. To me, it has become a new version of modern art. A lot of modern art, in my opinion, is an artist taking the easy way out, showing that while they may have something to say, they are content with not putting forth effort and leaving their message vague, something only the artist could explain. Looking at blobs of color or splashes of line strokes in basic and/or abstract shapes to me means absolutely nothing. I could interpret it as anything at all. The depth to it requires no intelligence, just people trying to act like they have sophisticated mindsets. And people all over the world accept this because its "art". Obesity in our country is in a lot of ways accepted in the same sort of way. "Its not the victims fault, its their genetics, their upbringing, they are just as they are supposed to be". When in reality, they are products of their own demise. Not to be inhumane, I understand that depression, life's struggles, child bearing (for women), financial easy ways out, commercialism, mental abuse, social abuse, etc does impact this disease and amplifies it dramatically. But it still comes down to the individual. Like the overly abstract artist, the obese person decides everyday not to work on themselves but to accept the easiest method to achieve happiness, when in actuality, they are destroying themselves.
