Contemporary Women Art Exhibition

Downtown tonight at [Scene] Metrospace with Savannah

"My print series "Pressing the Issue" is about contemporary women's body issues. 
Each model was turned into a human collagraph, 
strategically coated with handmade ink and printed on frosted mylar. 
The series sets out to show every woman that she is beautiful no matter her height or weight. 
The whole idea is meant to be empowering for women, so that they can realize 
their inner strengths and see themselves as the truly inspiring human beings that they are." 
Artist, Kimberly Lavon


{real life: the two of us were getting into it, really feeling it...and then this tall, skinny, 
model-looking girl walked by and Savannah was all, "Oooh, I want to look like her,"
and then we laughed really hard.  And, now we're sitting here laughing some more, 
and now she's pretending to look at art and says with a fake smile, "I LOVE my body now!  
I just feel so EMPOWERED!"  


It's nights like tonight when I'm amongst art, when I'm laughing and talking 
about real life with my girls, that I feel good in my skin - that I feel empowered - far more 
than I do in a great pair of jeans, new highlights, or nice shoes.


Now watch, I'll probably wake up with my face all broken out tomorrow, think my blog is dumb, 
and I'll want to grow my hair out because Savannah said it looks like Owen Wilson.


Until then, cheers to the moments when you actually feel like you just might 
be an inspiring human being.}