It's all in your head

I finished this rather large work last night just in time to enter it into the Nudgee College DIMENSIONS Art prize for 2011. Here is my artist statement for the work:

Vanity or desire? As an ‘Aesthetic Slave’, I am drawn to all things beautiful. Vanity plays its part well in this mind game, after all judging a book by it’s cover is deemed shallow, yet with aesthetics comes a form of power few can compete with.

Let me know your thoughts on this work.