This was my graduation project. It started with very confrontational self-portraits. I made these after I realised I had only been able to paint thin bodies. I wanted to accept my own body, I tried to make fat beautiful. Realising I wasn’t able to make this shift in such a short time, I split into two identities: the Feminist, who is aware of the absurdity of the beauty ideal, and the Existential Self, who just wants to live up to the beauty ideal. I researched this discrepancy between my identities. The Feminist, who makes images of fat and makes it ‘beautiful’ in a way, and the Existential Self, who makes self-portraits in the ugliest poses she can think of. At the end of the project I made a wall painting with these two identities. I wanted to create tension between them, and let myself and everybody else know that it’s okay to be vulnerable and you don’t always have to live the ideals that you believe in.