This project was different than anything I've ever done before. The last time I painted something this size or bigger was two years ago in Art III, and then I didn't have to paint so painstakingly. It took me so long to finish this, in fact, that I had to rely on the mini-snow break in December to get it done at home. The painting shows two of my characters, Yahaira and Tamsin (the former of which is also featured in my mixed-media piece, "Eden"), tearing each other down for the way they look/the clothes they wear. I was inspired to make this piece by the way society shapes women - women are often forced to compete for things that men don't have to compete for in the same way, so some women end up trying to push other women down instead of building them up - and I used Yahaira and Tamsin for this because a big issue between them is Yahaira's modesty versus Tamsin's lack thereof.
I called this piece "The Put-Down Competition" partly because of my content - women are often forced into putting each other down by society restricting roles for women, and they do this to compete for limited things (due to misogyny many businesses and industries may not have many women in leadership positions because they seem to have adopted the idea that having a tiny percentage of leading women is filling a quota and they don't want to overfill that quota for some reason). However, I also chose the title because I couldn't think of anything better or more clever; maybe I'll think of a better one later. (Maybe not, though; I entered this painting into Scholastics and if it wins anything I may not be able to change it...but we'll see how that goes.)
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