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“I wanted to jeopardize my own image. With my image I had already produced art pieces such as videos of photographs.”

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Orlan, born on May 30, 1947, is an artist whose identity is blurred across various disciplines, including sculpture, photography, video, and performance art. Her works often explore themes of body, gender, and identity. more

“A majority of the successful women on the pop scene conform to what a woman is supposed to be. Some have tried to get things moving. They have tried to modify the image. But sometimes the image has a hard time changing the eye - to change the relationship between the image and the eye takes longer.”

Sometimes Hard Eye Moving Successful Scene Majority Pops Supposed To Be Hard Times Conform Successful Women

Author:Orlan

“My job is to be an artist and thus I use different media to deal with the status of the body in our society.”

Different Use Body Jobs Artist Deals Media Our Society

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“I have always questioned the status of the body in our society. I have always been working on social, political, cultural and religious pressures, which prints them in the flesh and in particular in women's flesh.”

Body Political Social Religious Particular Pressure Flesh Our Society Print

Author:Orlan

“Surgery is not my job. I have been the first artist to use aesthetic surgery in another context - not to appear younger or better according to the designated pattern. I wanted to disrupt the standarts of beauty.”

Firsts Has Beens Use Wanted Jobs Artist Patterns Aesthetic Surgery

Author:Orlan

“I don't know who are the men and who are the women. In French I used to say "je suis un femme et une homme." That is to say a feminine male and a masculine female. A she man and a he woman. What I am interested in is developing a singularity, which would be my own.”

Knows Men Would Be Used My Own He Man Female Males Developing Feminine Masculine Singularity Femme

Author:Orlan

“Some men develop their own singularity. Football makes men conform to stereotypes: the warrior or the hunter. Football produces a certain kind of masculinity - the drunk kind, the king who will yell the worst nationalist's ideas. In front of those, it is very difficult to be a dignified woman.”

Men Kind Ideas Certain Difficult Worst Fronts Produce Football Kings Drunk Warrior Stereotype Conform Hunters Masculinity Singularity

Author:Orlan

“Beauty is the product of the dominant ideology. (Thus when ideology changes, the ideal body follows.) We can see that in the history of art.”

Art Body Products Ideals Ideology Dominant

Author:Orlan

“When two people become entangled, one person will conform to the energy of the other person. When one of them is a healer whose cells are vibrating at a higher level, the client's cells become entangled, and their energy is lifted. That's why that old saying, "physician heal thyself," is so important, even though most don't understand it: If the physician's energy is going to influence or, in scientific terms, "entrain" the patient's, the doctor's must be higher.”

People Ifs Persons Two Important Energy Term Levels Influence Higher Doctors Patient Heal Cells Clients Physicians Conform Thyself Healer Higher Level Old Saying

Author:Bruce H. Lipton

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