I frist watched this video without know anything about Heather Cassils and was really creeped out. I didn't know if she was a girl or boy, I didn't know what the performance was suppose to mean. I thought the person was going to passed out or blow a blood vessel or something. Then I went to Cassils' website and realized Cassils is a transgender. Cassils does work with using the body as a form of social sculpture. I actually appreciate what she does and understand this piece of art better now. This performance is called Hard Times and Cassils is exemplifying the sport bodybuilding. This sport is meant to show off the "perfect body" which isn't evan possible. This causes people in this sport to do anything they need to, to obtain this "perfect body" even if it means starving themselves or taking supplements that are not good for you. So in this performance Cassils is squeezing her muscles so hard, to show the "perfect body", that she is shaking, and she is wearing a mask over her eyes that makes her look like she is rotting; it is suppose to stand for her body or bodybuilder's bodies rotting from the inside out. After reading up on this I think what Cassils is doing is very powerful and a great cause; so many people are stuck on looking perfect that they don't realize all these extremes to obtain this unattainable image is harming their insides.
Wow!
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