At What Cost Beauty?

Deadly Beauty is a series of photomanipulations and abstractions created to encourage the viewer to
question society's definition and his own perception of aesthetic beauty. Through manipulation and
abstraction of the original "Deadly" photographic image, I sought to create an aesthetically pleasing
series of images from something inherently ugly.

We poison ourselves and the land to create spaces that are aesthetically pleasing to the eye. We fool
ourselves into thinking it necessary and forget about the dangerous and unhealthy processes often used
to achieve aesthetic “beauty”, whether it be a neighborhood baseball diamond free of weeds or an aging
face free of wrinkles. If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, what do you see? Life or death? Beauty or
ugliness? ~ BY Penman