Pretty Uglies (series 2)

This project which is an extension of The Pretty Uglies (series 1) explores the deconstruction and reconstruction of the human body through collage, drawing primarily on imagery sourced from physical media such as magazines. In which i have sourced from women’s fashion magazines as well as Play boy magazines. Using the process of scanning the cutouts and then photomontage, the work reimagines collage. Fragments of bodies originally presented as desirable are cut, displaced, and recombined into grotesque, hybrid figures. by scanning each individual cutout you can re use different body parts in the collage to make the collages connected and feel like a series's.

Through this transformation, the  work interrogates beauty standards, consumer imagery, and the manipulation of the human form within visual culture. Ultimately, the project positions collage as both a disruptive and reflective practice, one that reveals the tensions between desire, identity, and representation.

Collage of various body parts with some being human and others being photographs of flowers and other textures, edited together in an abstract manner.
Collage of various body parts including arms, torso, and legs with different skin tones and tattoos, assembled together in a surreal manner.
Collage of cutout images of a human female torso and legs, showing parts of the chest, abdomen, and thighs with visible skin tones and features.
A collage of a woman's body with a lips and teeth mouth as a head, and her right hand placed on her chest, against a white background.
A collage of human body parts including a hand, a leg, and a torso with a navel, isolated on a white background.
Collage of various body parts and a human eye, assembled in a surrealistic manner.
Collage of human body parts with an open mouth, tongue, lips, a torso, an arm, a hand, a leg, a foot, and an eye.
Collage of human body parts including lips, torso, belly button, arm, hand, thigh, knee, and lower leg, with some parts showing skin and some with clothing.
Collage of human body parts, including face, chest, arms, and legs, arranged in an abstract manner.
Collage of human facial features including an eye, lips, nose, and teeth arranged in a surreal manner on a white background.
A collage of parts of a woman's body, including her face, lips, breasts, and arm, arranged in a surreal and abstract manner.
Close-up of a collage-style image featuring a woman's face with short hair, a hand, and a woman with long hair, all with their eyes closed, set against an orange-red textured background.
Collage of human body parts including a face, an arm, a breast, and a mouth, arranged in a surreal and artistic manner
Collage of a nude woman's body with a human eye covering the face and various cutouts of body parts.
Collage of a woman's face and upper body assembled from torn magazine clippings, highlighting her eyes, nose, lips, and shoulder with a white background.
Collage of a woman with closed eye makeup, a split nose, and a partial arm, created by overlapping cutouts of various skin tones, textures, and facial features.
Collage of human facial features, lips, and a torso, arranged with torn paper edges
Collage of a woman with makeup and brown skin being manipulated by multiple disembodied hands against a white background.
A collage of various body parts including a mouth with teeth, a torso, an arm, and a leg, arranged in a surreal manner.
Collage of fragments from human faces and bodies, arranged into an abstract composition with varied skin tones, eyes, lips, and parts of limbs.
A surreal collage of a woman's body with a human eye head, a mouth with teeth, and a torso with tattoos, set against a plain white background.
Collage of nude human body parts including an arm, hand, torso, leg, and foot arranged abstractly on a white background.
Collage of a woman's body with multiple overlapping images, including a close-up of an eye, and a torn photograph of a woman with crossed arms.
Collage of human body parts including an eye, lips, arm, and hand, arranged in a surreal composition.
Collage of a person's face with a hand in front of it, with a large eye, lips, and body parts cut from various photographs.
Collage of facial features and a human torso, with a single eye, mouth with teeth, and shoulder, assembled from cutouts of a photograph.
Collage of human body parts, including lips, eyes, and torso, arranged abstractly.
A collage of human body parts, including a face with an eye, a nose, a mouth, and a hand, assembled in a surreal manner.
Collage of a human body with parts rearranged and edited together.
Collage of facial features including an eye, lips, and fingers, assembled in a surreal manner against a white background.
Collage of a person's body with a face replaced by a digital image of lips and tongue, surrounded by paper textures and a beige background.
Collage art of a human face with an eye, nose, and mouth, created from cut-out images of skin, eye, and lips, arranged on a white background.
Collage of a human face with a big smile, eye, nose, and lips, combined with parts of a human body, all arranged on a white background.
Collage of a human face with an eye, a mouth, and a partial arm, assembled in a surreal, fragmented style.
Collage of facial features, including eyes, nose, mouth, and teeth, arranged in an abstract manner.
Collage of a human face with exaggerated features: a large eye with long eyelashes, a nose, and facial contours, combined with a human arm and torso, all arranged in a surreal, artistic style.
Collage of human body parts including a face, shoulder, abdomen, and legs, with parts of skin, hair, and clothing visible, arranged on a white background.
Collage of various human body parts including eyes, lips, navel, and limbs arranged in an abstract composition.
A collage of a human body with a large mouth and teeth replacing the head.
Collage of disjointed human face and body parts.
Collage of a woman's body with facial features and limbs made from cutouts of lips, teeth, nose, and eye, combined with a section of red fabric or skin.
Collage of various human body parts including face, lips, hands, and torso, arranged in a surreal, abstract manner.
An abstract collage combining parts of a human torso, head, and limbs with textures such as skin, fabric, and paper, arranged without a clear depiction of a specific person or scene.
Collage of a face with lips and teeth, a nose, and a body with a belly button, with arms and legs, created from cutouts of faces, lips, noses, and limbs.
Collage of human body parts, including face, eye, lips, arm, hand with finger pointing up, torso, and feet, assembled in an abstract arrangement.