Daisy

Here lies Daisy. She is drawn to depict a girl with pretty features, a “popular” girl, loved by her beauty. However, her face is distorted into sections. Parts of her face is covered by magazine images and Magazine quotes in order to expose her part in conformity within society, following and trying to fit in with the unrealistic beauty standards given to women. This shows her expressed self to the public eye, or her “talked-of self.” However, the parts of her face not covered by the magazine bits are colored in blue, matching her tear drops. This represents her “unexpressed self,” a most true and authentic version of her identity. Her teardrops contains letters that is in her name, piling into a river of tears that spells “Daisy.” The teardrops only contain letters, because the longer she goes on with her conformity, the more she loses parts of her real self. Therefore, the teardrops are representing there are only parts of her left. One of her eyes is hers, and one of her eyes is an unnamed girl’s eye from the magazine. This shows that she can see through her own mind, that she is losing herself, therefore she’s crying, but she’s also controlled by the industry on what she should or shouldn’t look like (the magazine eye). Lastly, she is depicted in black and white to assert that the only important thing about her, Why people know her, is due to her face, her beauty, and nothing of her personality. She is plastered on the magazine her face is made from, to show the ironic truth about what magazines, social media, society actually does to women. The other side of the magazine shows another daisy, who is modified to promote society. The Drawn daisy is to parallel her, but showing the inside consequences.