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MARY_JAYNE 

ARTISTS STATEMENT
I loved being naked when I was younger then I went through a phase where I felt weird about it. Now, I love it again. I think nudity can be really hot and sexual, but also completely non-sexual. Learning to be content with your body can be really challenging as a woman with so many cultural factors trying to tell us what is beautiful and how, what and why we should change our bodies. I've read a lot that shifting the focus to what our bodies can do - how strong they can be, what they can withstand, how they get us around, how they protect our brain - is a really great way to let go of the purely physical side of what your body means. Doing projects like I Shot Myself also prompt you to place your own meaning on your body and see it from angles you wouldn't usually - I also think it forced me to find beauty in my own body, and capture it, with a kind of detachment that was actually more positive then if i were to just stand naked in front of the mirror.

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ARTIST PROFILE
birthplace: Perth
age: 20
height: 166cm
relationship status: Single
starsign: Taurus
biggest passion in my life: I'm a lover of great music
I like to listen to: Heaps of local bands as well as the classics
I like to watch: I'm not that into TV, I like docos and the occasional movie
I like to smell: Orange and Vanilla incense
I like to taste: I love tea, I can drink so much tea
I like to feel: Warm and comfortable - i like being all cocooned up in bed
favourite part of my body: Probably my eyes, they change color heaps in different light and when I wear different colors
favourite part of someone else's body: I think women are just so beautiful in general, on men, probably collar bones or their tiny weird bums
Why i shot myself: I've always been pro alternative representations of sexuality, especially for women, but there's really not a lot of that out there in the scheme of things, And so, when i came across the pr
who I'd least like to see shoot themselves: Everyone should do it! But maybe seeing mum on there would be kinda weird
who I'd most like to see shoot themselves: I'd love to see my bestfriend do it, i think she'd find it so liberating
my website/fav website: VICE, always has killer articles
Most outrageous thing I have done: I quit my job/got fired once because I really want to go camping with a boy i'd met and fallen for really quickly. He made me so irrational
Bands I like: The Pixies, Bowie, The Police and I can always dance to some funk. I also like stumbling across local bands, and some of my friends play in some of my favorite bands
Films I like: Tropic Thunder is probably one of the funniest movies i've seen but I also fucking love Coyote Ugly, it was the first 'M' rated film I ever watched

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Mary_Jayne is Agony contributor A3682