Symmetrical Bodies focuses on the female form as a contemporary object onto which cultural projections of beauty, desire, and perfection transform the body itself into something disquieting and awesome, sublime even. Combining photography and painting, the photographic element preserves the pixelated origin of the mass-produced image while the hand-painted element links to the history of painting and portraiture. When one side of a body is isolated and then mirrored, a purely symmetrical new body emerges which amplifies and reveals extreme idealizations of the female body.