Naomi Collins

After I decided not to use the animal cruelty idea for my journal of idea's project, I moved on to the theme of how the media pressurises little girls to grow too fast. 

I've always been fascinated with the idea of something you can interact with or something that you look at and you want to touch. Tracy Emin, 'People I have slept with' or more commonly known 'The Tent' is something that I've taken inspiration from for this piece. I've decided to set my, like Emin's, in a tent.

I'm going to use this child's tent, that you can see me in and convey the message and ask the question about the media making girls grow up to fast. I'm currently undecided whether I'd like to have my facts inside or outside. I'm currently swaying more towards outside and filing the inside with pornographic magazines, small padded bra's and other items that young girls have to face day in day out.

People can blame the way girls dress older than they are on their parents, but that's not always the case. My eight year old sister, who is always dressed like an eight year old should be, recently said she wants to be a super model and that she needs to be incredibly thin to do some, thus she won't eat, lucky she likes food far to much to stop. That's not my families opinions pushed onto her, that's the media and what the media considers beautiful.