Maureen Connor’s “Thinner Than You” Societal Significance.

Women should not be ashamed of the bodies.

Maureen Connor’s Thinner Than You is a mixed media piece that blends a cloth dress and a sculpture in which the cloth dress looks as if it is being worn. But the dress looks very peculiar because it is very thin around the waist and abdominal area. It is so thin that it looks as if the dress is not meant for a woman at all unless she is as small as a toothpick.

With cloth dress and sculpture set up as a hanger using mixed media for this visual art piece helps her break superficial and metaphysical boundaries with her creativity and message she is depicting. From a glance the dress just looks thin in the middle, but the dress is wrapped around the stainless-steel pole and tightly closed. Also, the dress is elongated and stretched thin along with the shoulder straps of the dress.

Aside from how the dress looks the dress was made so small that no woman could squeeze into it. The whole concept of Thinner Than You is to depict the struggle, stress, and pressure that women go through to conform to society’s standards of the way women should be shaped. In addition, Conner also is pointing out that being too skinny is irregular and unhealthy. It also shows how our society today views an ideal woman to be slim and have a “hourglass”…