Sarah Johnson

A lot of my work focuses on the interpretation of beauty. Beauty is extremely subjective, as the cliché says… “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Also, “beauty is only skin deep,” and “beauty is truth, and truth, beauty.” With such an array of clichés to pull from, it is always intriguing to explore the different ways people define what is “beautiful” and distinguish it from what is “not.” These distinctions affect the way people treat themselves, and also the way they treat others.

I think the idea of the vague definition of beauty intrigues me so much because it ties in closely with the even more vague definition of art. I took a dramatic analysis class where, for three weeks, we argued about what art was. No one had an answer that the rest of the class would accept. Beauty is the same way; what is beautiful to one person may not be to another. Beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder.