Continuation of influential artists

I am posting these images by Jeanne Dunning because the first time I came across her was last semester and I stared at her images in awe. I could not figure out why and what that "thing" was on this womans body. So I researched her a little bit more and gradually began understanding Dunning's thought process and the way she views the human body in general, female or male. These images above almost portray the female body as a burden or something we have to deal with. It gives me a sense of destruction or something that we are always going to have to live with. After I discovered Jeanne is when I began my self portrait series in which I dealt with female identity and accepting you for who you are. So many of us are unsatisfied with our physicalities, most of which are women. I was inspired with Dunning's work because I feel through her series "The Blob," she expresses how women feel, more specifically, "Jeanne Dunning's work in photography and video investigates the body and its physical boundaries as a metaphor for psychological transgression. She initiates simple interventions with the body that blur the distinction of interior and exterior self. The body becomes landscape, food repository and corporal layering of flesh and fluids." (http://www.ktfgallery.com/artists/jeanne_dunning/?show=home) Through her work, I interpret the body as just an outer physical "thing" made up of flesh, whereas most of us think of it as who we are and what differenciates us from the person next to us.