Life Models

Life Models is a live figure drawing class that redefined the beauty standards for women with breast cancer.
We took over a regularly scheduled figure drawing class, where typically nude models pose for student artists. Unbeknownst to the students, we brought in an unconventional model-a woman who chose to go flat after mastectomy. This experience surprised and challenged artists to defy beauty standards-the same standards that coerce women with breast cancer to undergo reconstructive surgery without being offered aesthetic flat closure as an alternative.