Where is bikini artitsu?
‘She went to live with tupac in the great big rap bowl in the sky’” -Hiroko Azuse “Exposure” While the original Artist Statement for “The Bikini Artist Project” holds true, I feel the need to embellish on what two years of Bikini Art has taught me. I want to share with what, I feel, is a wealth of experience, trial and error, and social experiment. While at its heart, The Bikini Artist project remains a humorous endeavor, it has evolved in a personal movement, a symbol focused on the eternal struggle to expose. Exposure—of the body, of the female form—my female form. Exposure of the hypocrisies we (still) abide by, everyday, to some extent. Exposure of my own worst nightmares, insecurities, and disabilities. Only thought the abject display of my alter ego can I hope to accomplish the candor and honesty that I feel is necessary to solve these problems. It has been suggested (jokingly, I hope) that without my alter ego, I might go mad– That is it hard to define the line between the Biki
