The Beauty Queen Project

“Beauty may be dangerous, but intelligence is lethal.”

— Anonymous

I have a confession. I don’t know what I am doing. I am not sure where to begin and I am not at all certain where this journey will take me. But that is okay. I know enough to move forward.

Have you ever been in a rut? Then you know the sense of restlessness and irritation I am experiencing. I understand that those feelings are my actions rubbing up against old values, assumptions, beliefs and expectations. I am out of alignment, so it is time to adjust. Thus, the Beauty Queen Project is underway.

This blog is documentation of a work in progress. It is a testament of my efforts to finish a specific work of art, but there’s no telling how things will unfold.

This project is dedicated to my mother, Gloria Gonzalez Polo. She was kind, funny, intelligent, industrious, ambitious, creative and so much more. Some people were too fixated on her physical beauty to notice those attributes. Their loss.

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Braille

I am fascinated with cryptic languages…..

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Come Closer

Inspiration from the past.

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Decisions Decisions

Making art means making lots of decisions. Each decision leads to another and, sometimes, those decisions lead to problems that must be solved.

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Superficial Culture

I believe the image of the beauty queen is an ideal representation of current attitudes towards not only women, but people across all segments of modern society.

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Paper Dolls

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Meat Puppets

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Variations On a Theme

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The Seed of an Idea

I lost my mother a few years ago. It was devastating.