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Artist Sophie Benjamins
Lafayette, California USA
Drew
Graphite
Artist Statement
This piece is meant to call into question society’s perceptions of gender. I always found it interesting that cartoon characters’ gender was most often differentiated using eyelashes – the girls had them and the boys didn’t – even though they are a biological feature we all share. I wanted to see if the addition of false eyelashes on an otherwise masculine face would change how the viewer saw the subject of the portrait.
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