Tug of War was my undergraduate thesis show at Virginia Tech in 2009. The conceptually charged sculptures explored questions of beauty, power, perfection and consumption and how these affect the human body. By combining my own body and media with everyday materials such as food wrappers, kitchen utensils, or cosmetic products, I revealed the overwhelming pressures of pursuing and upholding contemporary society's concepts of beauty and its expectations of unattainable perfection. I challenged myself to balance process and concept creating figurative yet abstract, elegant yet disturbing works which further address the constant struggle for moderation and balance in our nutritional intake or lack thereof.