Jordan Bachus: capstone

2022 Spring.Colorado State University Art and Art History Department capstone project.Capstone contains the artist's statement, a list of works, and images of works.The artist's statement: I was born and raised in the church and starting at a very young age girls are taught the idea of modesty and that our bodies are inappropriate. Growing up this idea was shoved into my brain and it was really hurtful. I saw my body as something that wasn’t beautiful and was almost a thing about myself to be ashamed of. Trying to cover myself up in order to show I truly followed what I was taught. As I grew up I learned more that my body was my own and that it was made in a beautiful way. However I choose to glorify my body is my own choice and not one to be told to me. I wanted to show this idea through this series. Showing the body as a beautiful thing, almost comparing it to forms of the earth, and photographing my body in abstracted ways. The body is almost a painting with small details and skin running and folding along the paper. I also wanted to show some of the fight in my own self, with the images of me grabbing showing that tension of this idea. The names of the images are pieces of verses throughout the Bible that talk about beauty in one way or another