Reflection- Barbara Kruger Style Piece

  
In my piece of art is a high contrast black and white image (with increased noise) of a girl kneeling/ puking into a toilet.  (Showing a bulimic girl).  You cannot she her face or puke, but rather her head ducked into the toilet bowl.  She is wearing a black tank top.  Half of the image (divided vertically) is inverted.  Near the bottom there are the words: "Real Beauty Is Surreal" written.  To add colour to the image, there are faint yellow lines across the image.  
    
      The message I tried to give in this piece of art is that society's and the media’s expectations are unrealistic and this causes negative actions by women.  It tells us how we should look by using distorted images, demeaning language creating what they think is the perfect woman, only looking on their body image. Even though women are given these unachievable standards they still attempt to achieve what society says is beautiful.  And their search for perfection can have many negative effects such as bad self images, eating disorders and an increase of sales of beauty products and cosmetic surgery.

     I like this piece of art because it contains a message and simply isn't a gathering of meaning less images and pictures to achieve nothing.  It contains a goal to make it's viewer question what kind images and thoughts they let rule their lives.  It also shows the possible effects of a negative self-image.  I would have liked to have mad more colour or affects to create a more effective piece.