“Women’s identity must be premised upon our ‘beauty’ so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air!”

-Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth, 1991

Ciara is exploring her relationship with beauty and how she is affected by the beauty myth that is so prevalent in today’s society. We are a society obsessed with appearance and there is an ever-growing pressure to look and behave in certain ways. For women especially, there has always been a pressure to conform to particular beauty standards with an importance placed on femininity. The artist uses her work as a diary to articulate her obsession with appearance and dissatisfaction with her own image.