self destruction

This picture represents plentitude, because the girl in the photo has a plenitude of money and uses it to buy herself “happiness”. The reason that I decided to make this picture was again, to tell a story. By only looking at this photo we can infer that she is rich. She has high heels, a tight fancy dress and the golden bracelets and neckless, but most obvious is the money laying all over her as if it’s so much that she doesn’t even know what to do with it anymore, hens plentitude. Having only that would have been to shallow, so I decided to not only show the cause, but also the effect of a plentitude of money. As some people might think, money can buy happiness. But I think money can destroy you, yearning for more and more and ending up back around at nothing with only the deception of a beautiful life left, a fiction of alcohol, cigarettes and drugs. She is craving her next cigarette with an empty bottle of whine, ready to finish the last sip in the glass. Her proper clothes and perfect make-up suddenly run down and washed away. It shows the truth behind all the celebrities that seem so perfect who hidden under the appearance they give off to the world. Safely concealed and closed in by the walls of the shower, where most feelings are hidden, she tries to even hide her unhappy truth from herself with intoxicants.

I took this photo of Alva Hildell after long preparations in the morning light when the sun shines through the bathroom window. First I cut of the ends of cigarettes and burnt them, then I took an empty whine bottle from my parents and filled some grape juice into a whine glass. I applied thick eye and lip makeup on Alva and rubbed it around until she looked tired and seemed to have had a long night after a party. The shoes and dress I borrowed from Alva while I put my jewelry on her. After finally finding a good position I threw the money and cigarette stubs on her and tried out different compositions with the glass and bottle, but the one where she lights it is my absolute favorite! Of course again, I made my model suffer, because the cigarette lit and kept smoking in her eye and smelled horrible for both of us. My bathroom still smells… Just for school-appropriate matters: No, she was not really smoking it, but for my art it was important to make it seem like she is.

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