Fine Art winners
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Honorable Mention Title:Cigarette for breakfast As with many days, Betty begins her day by cleaning the house. She takes a break to smoke a cigarette and gets lost in her thoughts. Alarm Call's series started with the book by Betty Friedan, the feminine mystique, written in 1963, describing the assumptions that women would be fulfilled by their housework, marriage, sexual lives and children. But as we know now, there is no "one size fits all" destiny for women, and Friedan wanted to prove that women were unsatisfied and could not voice their feelings. In "The Other," the body of work this image is taken from, I explore the complex ways in which a society built by men shapes the identities of women, drawing inspiration from Jean-Paul Sartre's quote "Hell is other people" (from the play No Exit). The work delves into the struggle between conforming to self-limiting beliefs and discovering one's authentic self. What if hell isn't actually other people - but the things we do to ourselves?
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