Elizabeth Rankin

My concern is the uniqueness of the female body as a site of political and social contention and as separate from the perceived human form which is often male. My mermaid is not the mythical chimera,part human and part fish, but a fleshy human form. Such an abundance of flesh disturbs contemporary expectations of female beauty and produces self consciousness and body dysmorphia.But this mermaid is a liberated creature of flesh and form and siren in her weightless world.

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