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following eight images come from a collaborative project created
with a team of seven teenagers through the Blue
Sky Project, an artist residency located in rural IL. We began
by conducting interviews with strangers on the street about their
experiences with health and illness, injury and disability, beauty
and body image.
These collected stories
were then translated into a small-press zine, an audio CD, a set
of wearable collage-drawings, and a series of photographs documenting
the teenagers "wearing" the alternate body systems they
created, set against the backdrop of the school gymnasiums, county
fairs, and cornfields of their native McHenry County. Our
aim was to present a complex, surreal look at teenage body image
and at the ways that we imagine sensations we can feel but can't
see.
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