This work explores the idea of body image. I am always overly aware of my body in space. How I sit, dress, or how my body is positioned to be viewed by others in a room. Playing on the idea of the weight of a body, I crafted a larger than life abstracted body that is hung in the air to emphasize the skin projections. This allows me to fully envelop a space with my body as a way to take my control back. The viewer has to walk into the space and be overwhelmed by this large sculpture. There is no room to stand back, you have to navigate its uncomfortable presence in the space. My body holds the power. The single bulb lighting makes the sculpture feel alive and ominous by casting shows in the skin folds as well as the walls. The slight detail of letting the food ads in the newspaper I modgepodged show through the paint is a comment on body image and weight. However, by painting over it I am able to strip its power and transform these ads into something else. Using cardboard and modgepodged paper this sculpted body is given a rough, crunchy materiality to it that is in contrast to human flesh emphasizing the uncomfortable or ugly feeling I have in my own body.