Denis Santos
- Women’s flaws are beautiful.
- Spanish artist proves that women’s flaws can be works of art too.
Stretch-marks? Scars? Even period stains? These are just a few things in which women feel insecure. Women can relate, for sure.
Not all heroes wear cape
Cinta Tort Cartó is a proud feminist artist from Barcelona, Spain. She started this women-empowering project a few months ago with a vision that people have different bodies and that stretch marks are one way of showing you’ve aged gracefully and we have to accept it. As Tyra Banks says, it’s what makes every woman Flawsome!
In a statement she posted online regarding her bold works of art, she said,
“As a woman living in a hetero-patriarchal system, I’ve always felt a strong pressure to look a certain way, particularly when I was a teenager. At that time, I had an eating disorder, anorexia, because I wanted to be very thin. I didn’t want to have body hair, I wanted my stretch marks to disappear, I didn’t even like my hair… Basically I just didn’t like myself.”
But she always gets reminded that every human body is beautiful.
“I realised that I had to learn to accept myself. It took time and it wasn’t easy, so I wanted to show the struggle I went through in my art,” she explained.
She said that she started by painting her own skin and stretch marks. After this, she went on painting six other women.
“I want this art to show and fight against the pressure that women are under pressure to have a perfect body that fits with the “norm”. We have to accept that there are different types of bodies and every body is beautiful. Stretch marks are a reality; we have to show them.”
She also did the same thing with the period stains left on women’s sanitary napkins painting colors instead of blood.
So girls, the next time you feel insecure of your flaws, always remember that it is a form of art. You are an art.
