Untitled (Mustache)
8' x 5' projections

This piece explores the embedded social construction of women removing hair from many areas of their body, in this case above their lip, and the beauty standards that coincide with this hair removal or lack thereof. The piece features two large projections on opposite walls, one being a found YouTube video, and the other a taping of the artist plucking at the hair of her upper lip. The YouTube video shows a girl doing a how-to video on plucking hair from your upper lip, repeatedly telling the viewer not to be the gross girl who doesn't remove her upper lip hair, and to be beautiful girls must remove this hair and this is the only way to appear clean. The opposite video of the artist plucking her own mustache reveals that as a viewer of this YouTube video, she responds to it by feeling pressured and that it is essential to pluck her own hair. Though the hair above her lip is nearly invisible, the pressure to remove the hair is still embedded in her.